After being teased and shown at trade shows, Nividia's RTX ray tracing is coming to Minecraft on PC in a beta form later today - and it looks stunning. Minecraft makes a lot of sense as a ray tracing ...

Nvidia and Microsoft have finally announced a beta for Minecraft’s gorgeous RTX ray-tracing update. It will be available on Thursday, April 16. I had a chance to play the beta over the weekend.

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 ...

If you missed the beta or other examples in 2020, ray tracing allows for realistic, physics-based lighting in games. Minecraft traditionally shirks realism in favor of a pixel art, sandbox fantasy ...

We’ve already discussed the technical details in our Minecraft beta announcement coverage. Hit that up to learn what you’ll need to run this new-look Minecraft. (Spoiler: A GeForce RTX 20-series GPU ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The difference is obvious the first time you load up one of the six environments in NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Worlds pack, all of which are ...

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 ...

It was seven months ago that NVIDIA announced it was working to give Minecraft a makeover, thanks to the ray tracing hardware acceleration hardware built into its GeForce RTX line of graphics cards.

Who would have thought that Minecraft would be worth the effort to add ray-traced visuals to its blocky textures and comparatively simple graphics? But that's what happened, and the Minecraft with RTX ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, Minecraft developer Mojang and gaming tech company Nvidia announced that the sandbox game was getting a new feature allowing for a huge visual overhaul. Called Minecraft with RTX, ...