GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Microsoft has announced that Xbox ray tracing has been removed from the Minecraft Preview version after the prototype code was added by mistake. After ...

Intel is promoting CPU-based ray tracing as an alternative to traditional polygon-order rendering on PCs. Glaskowsky explains why this is a bad idea. Peter Glaskowsky Peter N. Glaskowsky is a computer ...

The subtle majesty of lo-res textures with very fancy lighting. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A modder has taken up the ...

Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. Over the decades, we've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray ...