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.

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Update: The Minecraft RTX open beta is now live. It is only ...

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.

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The difference is obvious the first time you load up one of the six environments in NVIDIA's Ray Tracing Worlds pack, all of which are ...

Once upon a time, Microsoft announced a massive 4K update for Minecraft. Then the company canceled it. Then Nvidia announced its massive ray-tracing update for Minecraft and didn't cancel it. The ...

Minecraft may look the same regardless of where you play it, but the game is split between two versions built on entirely ...