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 and Microsoft have finally announced a beta for Minecraft’s gorgeous RTX ray-tracing update. It will be available on Thursday, April 16. I had a chance to play the beta over the weekend.

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 ...

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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 ...

Bottom line: The familiar sandbox world of Minecraft is due for a massive visual overhaul later this week with the launch of the RTX Beta for Windows 10. Some will argue that Minecraft perhaps isn't ...

Initially releasing around 8 months ago in a beta version, I think it’s been somewhat ironic that one of the best looking games to utilize ray tracing technology so far has been Minecraft RTX. I know, ...

Who would have thought that Minecraft would be worth the effort to add ray-traced visuals to its blocky textures and comparatively simple graphics? But that's what happened, and the Minecraft with RTX ...

It can be difficult to quantify the value of ray tracing. On the one hand, realistic lighting paints a scene with an entirely different brush, colouring our gaming experiences with brooding realism ...

Returning to ray-traced Minecraft on the Nvidia RTX 3060 reminds me that this technology is the real next generation. The fact that ray tracing is ‘the future’, whatever that really means, isn’t ...

We’ve already discussed the technical details in our Minecraft beta announcement coverage. Hit that up to learn what you’ll need to run this new-look Minecraft. (Spoiler: A GeForce RTX 20-series GPU ...