We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. "Minecraft" is indeed a game where players mine resources and craft new objects, but it's so much more. The sandbox game that tasks players ...

Minecraft calls back to an era of 8-bit arcades, applied to the freedoms of a three-dimension sandbox, and a prime example of throwback graphics. The title evolved from its sole creator to the backing ...

One of the most popular games ever made is getting a big-time facelift. At Gamescom, NVIDIA announced it has been working with Mojang and Microsoft to bring real-time ray tracing to Minecraft, the ...

Last week, Mojang announced that the Minecraft Super Duper Graphics Pack (SDGP) that Microsoft had promised back in 2017 was canceled, permanently. No additional information was offered on why the ...

Brendan is a freelance writer and content creator from Portland, OR. He covers tech and gaming for Lifehacker, and has also written for Digital Trends, EGM, Business Insider, IGN, and more. A ray ...

Ray tracing is becoming extremely demanding among developers and gamers. Although it's a very good feature to elevate the usual gaming experience, its requirements are no joke. In "Minecraft," this ...

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 ...

There are plenty of Minecraft mods out there that alter the vanilla, chunky-pixel look of the game, but there's now a mod that's a cut above the rest. A modder named Dmitriy is using bump mapping and ...