Minecraft is pretty simple, and there’s not a whole lot going on visually — most enemies are blocks, and even 11 years ago the game could run on low-end computers. But the Dec. 8 update changes that ...

NARRATOR: When you think of Minecraft, you probably imagine blocky graphics and simplistic textures. But the recent beta launch of ray tracing support for NVIDIA's RTX graphics cards transforms it ...

Ray tracing is one of the latest and most impressive graphical improvements video games have seen in the last few years. This system focuses on making light sources behave more realistically, which ...

2020 has been hard for everyone, even those who thrive in virtual worlds. Gaming events have been postponed then canceled and communities have had to quickly find new ways to get together even when ...

Last week, Mojang announced that the Minecraft Super Duper Graphics Pack (SDGP) that Microsoft had promised back in 2017 was canceled, permanently. No additional information was offered on why the ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "Minecraft" is indeed a game where players mine resources and craft new objects, but it's so much more. The sandbox game that tasks players ...

Minecraft’s ray tracing feature for Windows 10 has made its way out of beta eight months after the feature first became available for testers. The addition of ray tracing support for NVIDIA's RTX ...

Just in time to spite the Radeon RX 6900 XT launch and drive home the fact that AMD lacks a crucial DLSS equivalent, Nvidia announced a flood of news related to ray tracing and Deep Learning Super ...

Returning to ray-traced Minecraft on the Nvidia RTX 3060 reminds me that this technology is the real next generation. The fact that ray tracing is ‘the future’, whatever that really means, isn’t ...