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 ...

Once upon a time, Microsoft announced a massive 4K update for Minecraft. Then the company canceled it. Then Nvidia announced its massive ray-tracing update for Minecraft and didn't cancel it. The ...

Microsoft's Mojang and Nvidia are adding a rendering technique called ray tracing to "Minecraft." Ray tracing looks at the way rays of light bounce off of virtual objects to simulate real-world ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In context: At Gamescom 2019, Microsoft and Nvidia announced ray tracing was coming to Minecraft for Windows. Mojang added it with version 1.16.200. Of course, users need an Nvidia GeForce RTX 20 ...

Something to look forward to: Some modders have been tinkering with pieces of Nvidia's upcoming ray tracing mod framework for months, but the entire toolset will be available publicly in a few weeks.