We've been following the evolution of hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing for some time now here at Digital Foundry - and one of the most spectacular demos we've seen actually took the form of ...

As demonstrated by Warren, the Minecraft Preview build allows users to enable ray tracing and customise the feature’s render distance. A clip provided by Warren also showcases what Minecraft looks ...

Minecraft is more blocky than top-end graphics but that's about to change. It was only recently that Xbox Series X showcased ray tracing in Minecraft, but now PC players will be able to experience it ...

Eight months after its initial beta launch, Mojang and Nvidia's free raytracing update for Minecraft's Windows 10 edition has officially launched for all players. You ...

At a glance, Minecraft in RTX seems like the stupidest idea in the world. You’ve got this incredible, monstrously powerful new graphics technology – one that ...

Ray tracing technology is designed to bring more realistic lighting to video games, improving reflections, shadows, and light sources.

Nvidia has announced a partnership with Microsoft's Mojang which has brought DirectX Raytracing (DXR) support to popular block-'em-up Minecraft - even as the official 4K graphics upgrade pack was ...

Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

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Minecraft's Super Duper Graphics Pack may have been canceled last week, but the game is still receiving a major graphics update thanks to Nvidia. Microsoft/Mojang and Nvidia have been working together ...

If you have one powerful computer, you can play Minecraft RTX beta, bringing ray-tracing to the already gorgeous block world of Minecraft. Ray-tracing is a form of rendering which drastically improves ...