Discover what ray tracing in gaming is, how it works, and why it transforms video game lighting, reflections, and realism.

With the arrival in April of the first official details about Sony’s next-generation PlayStation, and Microsoft’s unveiling of Project Scarlett at its E3 2019 press briefing on Sunday, the future of ...

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Dying Light 2 on PC is a beast - both in good and bad ways. When ramped to the very best settings it looks incredible, with ray tracing making the entire world feel more believable and real. But as ...

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 ...

Imagination Technologies is one of those companies simultaneously ubiquitous and invisible. Its PowerVR graphics processors drive high-profile electronics like Sony’s PlayStation Vita, Apple’s iPhones ...

As the popularity oAs smartphones gain popularity, so does the demand for high-quality mobile games. Consumers now crave the same brilliant graphics from their PC and console games on their mobile ...

The announcement today (August 20) of Nvidia's new GPUs with integrated acceleration of raytracing makes Microsoft's plans for DirectX even more relevant. Raytracing gives developers access to a wide ...

During its Gamescon press conference today, Nvidia introduced three new graphics cards, and one new piece of jargon you're going to have to get used to. Ray tracing isa new technique that Nvidia has ...

Dying Light 2's release date is upon us, and Nvidia just announced that the survival horror RPG is coming to GeForce Now. While the game's ray tracing elements demand a lot from gaming PCs, the ...

Intel’s forthcoming graphics chips are poised to deliver some serious competition to Nvidia, which embraced real-time ray tracing when the company launched its RTX series graphics cards late last year ...

The PlayStation 5 will self-fashion as the go-to console for “hardcore gamers” when it launches in 2020. And it’s cooking up a host of major specs upgrades in order to do it. Sony has already revealed ...