Minecraft is better known for its innovative gameplay than its visuals. Since its release in 2011, the game has maintained its blocky and pixellated graphics. This surely helped players play the game ...

A Minecraft player compared different textures of the blocky game (Image via Mojang Studios) Minecraft’s visuals have always been one of the most limiting factors of the game. It came out more than 15 ...

Nvidia releases new screenshots and tutorials for Minecraft's upcoming ray tracing update. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Nvidia ...

Adrian has been a tech enthusiast since the 90s with a particular passion for gaming that developed thanks to his first gaming outings on Pong, Zork and Space Invaders. In the years that followed he ...

Minecraft has finally received the RTX Beta update and we’ve been test-driving it for some time and boy does it look good! The beta update is the result of a collaboration between Nvidia, Mojang and ...

When you think of Minecraft, you probably imagine blocky graphics and simplistic textures. But the recent beta launch of ray tracing support for NVIDIA's RTX graphics cards transforms it into an ...

We dive into the world of Minecraft to see how much better the game looks with RTX ray tracing on. Minecraft may not be the most visually stunning game, but that doesn't mean there isn't a quaint ...

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.

Nvidia is aiming for 1080p/60fps in Minecraft RTX with an RTX 2060, says a spokesperson for the company. Minecraft is due an RTX update next year, at which point we'll see a plethora of ray-traced ...

Minecraft calls back to an era of 8-bit arcades, applied to the freedoms of a three-dimension sandbox, and a prime example of throwback graphics. The title evolved from its sole creator to the backing ...

The Minecraft RTX beta has begun and Mojang has revealed how players can join, and what won’t be available. For those who might have missed the big news, Mojang is testing a new version of Minecraft ...

Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. As part of the beta, Minecraft with RTX ...