PC Gamer recently noted that, among the 21 most popular PC games of 2025, only five make use of hardware-accelerated ray tracing. While the demanding technology ...

Path tracing can make a game look absolutely astonishing, and although it will still hammer GPUs like nothing else for a good ...

The latest DirectX release standardizes advanced rendering features key to path-tracing performance and the use of AI in games.

Ray-traced global illumination, reflections, and shadows are some of the most visually stunning effects you could ask for in a racing game, especially one so gorgeous as Forza Horizon 6. However, it ...

The Saturn was Sega's fifth generation fully-3D console, launched in 1994 to compete with the PlayStation 1 and Nintendo 64—and all these years later, homebrew developer XL2 has managed to create a ...

Graphics in games don’t improve in a steady, gentle slope. They jump. Someone ships a look that feels like it arrived from five years ahead, and then everyone else has to scramble to match it, ...

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D is what a “refresh” should look like when the base product is already strong. It keeps the platform consistent for AM5 users, holds the same cache configuration that makes X3D ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Here is a video that I recorded showing Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora running in Unobtanium mode and with a custom mod reshade ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...