We’ve seen modders add path tracing (which is similar to ray tracing) to Minecraft with impressive effects. But now Nvidia have announced they’re working on official ray tracing support for it. This, only a week after the Super Duper Graphics pack was cancelled for being “too technically demanding”. Emissive blocks like Glowstone and Lava can illuminate environments, along with other dynamic game elements. According to Polygon, we can expect ray tracing to arrive in Minecraft “within the next ye

Remedy has released another new trailer for Control with ray traced global illumination enabled throughout the footage. The trailer looks great, and a lot of that is down to Control’s striking art design—which to my mind is reminiscent of Christopher Nolan’s visual style. But Nvidia’s ray tracing effects are easy to see in several shots, adding extra visual depth to reflections and real-time shadows. You can compare how a scene in Control looks with RTX on and off with this image from Nvidia. Wh

(Image credit: Zachtronics)Zachtronics is famous for creating tricky, brilliant machine-based puzzlers like Opus Magnum and SpaceChem, but its new game is something completely different. Eliza is a intriguing visual novel about an AI counseling program, and it’s out now. It tells the story of Evelyn Ishino-Aubrey, a former high-flyer in the tech world who’s returned to Seattle after a mysterious three-year absence. She works as a proxy for Eliza, a virtual counseling app: Evelyn’s job is simply

(Image credit: Bohemia Interactive)An Australian politician has said the country’s decision to ban DayZ over in-game drug use has made it look like “the wet blanket and laughing stock of the whole world”. Tim Quilty, Liberal Democratic Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council, said the “absurd” ban was triggered by Bohemia Interactive’s plans to include cannabis as a healing item. “Sadly, the developers of DayZ have caved,” he said in the Parliament of Victoria on Thursday, referencing

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Indonesian indie studio Toge Productions are working on Coffee Talk, a game about being a barista in a version of Seattle where fantasy folk live alongside humans. It’s a bit like Shadowrun and a bit like Va-11 Hall-A: Cyberpunk Bartender Action only the drink mixing is less boring, and you can draw some coffee art in the foam. As you play you unlock recipes for different varieties of tea, hot chocolate, and so on. The other half of the game is in the conversations that play out with these talka

Gunfire Games and its 63-strong development team will remain an “independent development studio under THQ Nordic”, the publisher said. In addition to Darksiders 3, Gunfire is known for its VR games, which include the excellent third-person action-RPG Chronos. THQ Nordic published Darksiders 3 and acquired the rights to the Darksiders franchise in 2013 when publisher THQ went bankrupt, so the deal isn’t a huge shock. Gunfire Games’ Adams said: “Having worked together on the development of Darksid

The Epic Games Store is doing its last double freebie this week, at least for now, giving everyone a copy of Hyper Light Drifter, the tricky pixel RPG, and the turn-based tactics game, Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden. I’ve only ever admired Hyper Light Drifter from a distance, because it looks like the sort of thing where my lack of dexterity will only ensure a plenitude of deaths and a lot of frustration. Mutant Year Zero is more my speed. It only appeared last December, so getting it for free n

(Image credit: Scan UK)Returning faulty hardware purchased from Scan Computers UK just got potentially easier and faster. We have developed R48, our 48hr replacement policy alongside our key partners to give you the best returns/replacement experience.,” Scan UK says. R48 means we will dispatch a replacement to you within two working days of receiving the product back at Scan.” Scan UK is working with several popular PC hardware brands, including AMD, Asus, Cooler Master, Corsair, EVGA, Intel, N

The No Man’s Sky modding community is relatively small, but full of important tweaks to the space-faring sim to change the game’s UI, controls, and visuals. Fortunately, modders for No Man’s Sky seem to be updating to Beyond (the latest 2.0 version of the game) extremely quickly. The recent uploads on the Nexus Mods hub for No Man’s sky are full of images proclaiming mods that are updated for the newest version. So far, it looks like they’ve updated five of their mods to Beyond, with a big list

Nightdive Studios announced last week that it’s working on an enhanced version of System Shock 2, which came as a shock to me because I thought it had been announced months ago. “Our priority with the Enhanced Edition is to be able to deliver an updated co-op multiplayer component. “Our other priority is to ensure that all existing mods and fan missions are compatible with the Enhanced Edition, but much of that will rely on the cooperation of the mod community. System Shock 2 multiplayer is a pa

Sniper: Ghost Warrior 3 suffered from some rather serious technical problems when it came out in 2017, which developer CI Games attributed in part to the game being “too ambitious” for its relatively small team. To address that, it said the next release in the series, Sniper Ghost Warrior Contracts, would ditch Ghost Warrior 3’s open-world design in favor of “tailor-made contract missions that offer a clear main objective.” A year to the day later, CI has dropped a new trailer showcasing Black G

It feels like 2019 is the year of old games made new. Tactics games aren’t going to be left out of the fad, as classic RTS tactics games Commandos 2 and Praetorians are due for HD remastered versions by the end of this year. In preparation for Gamescom, publisher Kalypso Media has released a new gameplay trailer for each showing off combat, unit selection, higher resolution assets, and the games’ UI. Praetorians, based on the foot battles of the Roman Empire, is focused more on the real-time str

That has become more difficult to achieve in recent years, however, leading some (like Nvidia) to declare Moore’s Law is dead. What makes this surprising is that Moore’s Law, named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, has mostly been touted by Intel over the years. Nevertheless, Cheng (and by extension, TSMC) sees continued relevance in Moore’s Law even as TSMC heads towards semiconductors built in 5-nanometer manufacturing process. Cheng also concedes that maintaining Moore’s Law will require c

Despite the name, One Monster RPG isn’t really an RPG. It’s set at the very end of an adventure where you’ve killed every single monster apart from one. Unfortunately, it won’t give you enough experience points to get to level 100, the true goal of One Monster RPG. (Image credit: The Game Assemblers)That’s all there is to it, but I love it to bits. One Monster RPG is free on Itch.io.

(Image credit: Evo)Fans and competitors at Evo 2019, where we enjoyed watching the rise of Pakistani Tekken player Arslan Ash earlier this month, may have been exposed to measles. Evo 2019 ran from August 1-4 at the Mandalay Bay resort: The Mandalay Bay Convention Center for the first two days, and the Events Center for the finale. “Because measles can be highly contagious, the Health District is advising people who may have been exposed to review their immunization status and contact their heal

It’s about time book burning came to Skyrim Special Edition. Enter Project Illiteracy, which promises to let you put your books to good use as fuel against the harsh winter nights. The Skyrim Special Edition mod gives you a new ability, which is named “Destroy Books.” Campfire is a soft dependency in the script, so if you aren’t using Campfire, the script will still work.” “I think that’s fair though, setting them on fire pretty much ruins books,” the mod description says.

Step into the world of @DoomMovie with this exclusive sneak peek & see the full version on @DreadCentral. Pre-order Doom: Annihilation on Blu-ray, DVD, & Digital to own on October 1 https://t.co/dHjASkxXv7 #DoomMovie pic.twitter.com/rXt6ba57X3August 15, 2019We were pretty sceptical about the trailer for Doom: Annihilation, the straight-to-video Doom movie coming out on October 1. Here’s what the official plot synopsis says: “Based on the popular original video game, Doom: Annihilation is an expl

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Microsoft Flight Simulator’s Insider Program has launched, offering prospective players previews of the roadmap, early builds and updates from the developers. (Image credit: Microsoft)This month, Microsoft will be doing a couple of media updates, so expect screenshots and clips, along with a bunch of internal tests. Insiders will also get an update on the build program, with a technical alpha planned for mid September. (Image credit: Microsoft)(Image credit: Microsoft)In late September, Microsof