Facepalm: It looked like ray tracing was finally coming to Minecraft, until Mojang Studios pulled the rug out from under Insiders. Developers had evidently left "prototype" RT code in the latest ...

Ray tracing is becoming extremely demanding among developers and gamers. Although it's a very good feature to elevate the usual gaming experience, its requirements are no joke. In "Minecraft," this ...

One of the first games to take advantage of hardware accelerated ray-tracing on PC was Minecraft, transforming the simple blocky world into a visually accurate graphical showpiece. This ray tracing ...

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The latest Minecraft Preview is also optimized for Xbox Series X The latest Minecraft Preview is also optimized for Xbox Series X is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Andrew is a freelance writer from UK who specialises in video game news. He has written for What Culture, Rock Paper Shotgun, and PCGamesN. In 2023, he finally caved and bought an Xbox Series X. If ...

Microsoft seemingly began testing raytracing in Minecraft earlier this week, but it was actually a mistake. The feature has now been pulled. The feature appeared in a preview update on Xbox consoles, ...

Last week, Minecraft received a preview update available only to Xbox Insiders that added ray tracing code to the game, leading many to speculate that an official update adding this frequently ...

Jared Carvalho is a Contributor from the United States and a longtime fan of video games, having started the hobby with a SNES when he was six and never looking back since. He often finds himself ...