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.

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 ...

Back in August, Mojang and NVIDIA announced that ray tracing was on the way to Minecraft. At the time, the companies said that ray tracing features would launch in beta at some point in 2020, then ...

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 ...

Ray tracing is one of the best ways to enhance the visuals of vanilla Minecraft. This effect, identifiable in-game as RTX, is a revolutionary new way of rendering lighting. It actually calculates ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. While you may be limited to which version of Minecraft you can play ...

Bedrock has more players than Java due to the number of platforms it's on (Image via Mojang Studios) Ever since Microsoft purchased both Minecraft and Mojang Studios, there has been a divide in the ...