GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. If you've been holding out on Microsoft's offer to upgrade your Java version of Minecraft to their more feature-rich Windows 10 one, you only have a ...

With Minecraft’s new ray-traced visual overhaul now live in beta, Microsoft’s offer for a free upgrade of the game is coming to a close. Players who own the original Java version of Minecraft have ...

Remember back in April when Mojang and Nvidia launched the Minecraft with RTX Windows 10 beta? The release ushered in a type of ray tracing to Minecraft called 'path tracing', adding all-new ...

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 ...

NVIDIA and Microsoft first launched the Minecraft with RTX beta back in mid-April, and it made the typically rudimentary-looking game look absolutely amazing with ray traced water, lighting, and ...

There's no finer example of ray tracing today, but that comes at the cost of Minecraft's greatest asset. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

If you’ve ever dreamt of building towering castles or just exploring the blocky, pixelated landscapes of Minecraft, we are in the same boat. However, it would not be wrong of us to say that doing so ...

After months of teases and previews, the biggest advancement in visual effects in years is finally coming to the biggest PC game ever. Real-time ray tracing is coming to Minecraft for Windows 10 this ...

What’s the difference between versions of Minecraft? That’s not as simple a question to answer as you might think. Most current players will be used to whatever version they’ve started on, whether ...

As I reported in my previous post (Immersive Realism Comes To Minecraft Through Ray Tracing From Nvidia), the addition of Nvidia’s RTX graphics ray tracing technology transformed the cartoon-like ...

Minecraft Java and Bedrock edition launched on PC in 2022, bringing the two main versions of the game to a mutual launcher. But even with the two games living happily as one, it can be a bit confusing ...