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Digital Foundry, the most trusted name in game console analysis, is going independent (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Arcane2077@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)

I stopped trusting them when they flooded the conversation with Nvidia price hike apologia since the Turing line’s (rtx 2000) release. They seem to have gone easy on the evangelization most recently, but they will still absolutely not do the bare minimum of calling out how insane it is for a company to engage straight-up false advertising in their official performance metrics.

I liked their “optimized settings” series, but that series ended (AFAIK)

[–] icylobster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Eh, enough if their content can exist fine without calling anyone out. I don't think it's what any of them really want to do, they prefer to focus on games. I feel like they mostly call out individual game performance.

You are right in that their consistency in what they get upset about seems inconsistent. It does feel like it might depend on what company was nice to them recently. But I still think the heart of their content works even with that issue.

Optimized settings was my favorite thing too.

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