Despite the fact that Minecraft is a block game made up of pixellated textures, it can be somewhat altered to improve its aesthetic appeal. One such graphical modification is called shaders, which can ...

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 ...

To install shaders in "Minecraft: Java Edition," you'll first need to download a free program called OptiFine. Once OptiFine is installed, all you need to do is move the shader files into a specific ...

Looking for the Minecraft ray tracing shader? Real-time lighting effects are a highlight of high-fidelity games like Battlefield V and Metro Exodus, but they're also available in the chunky world of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Lots of texture packs and shaders can really change up the look and feel of the Minecraft world, ...

Ray-tracing is one of those next-gen buzzwords that's difficult to get excited about. It doesn't help, of course, that it sounds like something Captain Kirk would shout from the command chair of the ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Update: The Minecraft RTX open beta is now live. It is only available on the Windows 10 Bedrock version of the game. Coming soon to Windows versions ...

The “Imagination Island” world in the Minecraft with RTX beta — ray tracing enabled Image: Mojang/Xbox Game Studios via Blockworks, Nvidia With Minecraft’s new ray-traced visual overhaul now live in ...

We've been following the evolution of hardware-accelerated real-time ray tracing for some time now here at Digital Foundry - and one of the most spectacular demos we've seen actually took the form of ...