This video features a side-by-side comparison of different graphical shaders used within Minecraft. The gameplay focuses on a ...

How a game looks is one of its most important factors, especially in an age of photo-realism and ray-tracing. So, even if you're playing one of the most aesthetically uncomplicated videogames to come ...

Minecraft has recently announced an array of major overhauls and changes, including the transition from legacy OpenGL to Vulkan. This new graphics API is set to modernise the graphics and improve ...

The recently released Shader Model 6.9 brings Microsoft's official take on Shader Execution Reordering (SER) out of preview. Nvidia and a few game developers have already ...

While vanilla Minecraft is amazing all on its own, the game's vast modding community has spent the last decade turning this blocky sandbox into a horror game, a dating sim, and an RPG. They've added ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Microsoft’s $2.5-billion purchase of “Minecraft” brought the wildly popular block-building and adventure game to new players across multiple platforms. Microsoft expanded the game beyond Xbox, added ...

The FPS genre has morphed considerably over the decades, but one thing has remained consistent: A great first-person shooter needs satisfying gunplay. What counts as "satisfying" varies from era to ...

With Shader Execution Reordering, some Intel and Nvidia GPUs deliver up to 90% greater FPS in a specific path-tracing ...