Elden Ring's latest update arrived earlier this week, and it appears to be harbouring some secrets that might be pointing towards ray tracing, and maybe even DLC. The main purpose of Elden Ring patch ...

A new update for Elden Ring has finally separated damage scaling for PvE and PvP. But, in a more interesting tease, the data within the patch appears to hint towards new locations and ray tracing ...

Microsoft has devised a system to massively reduce the amount of VRAM required by ray tracing in games, potentially meaning that we don't need to keep piling more and more memory onto future graphics ...

Ray tracing and path tracing sound similar — and technically, they are. Both methods simulate how light travels in a 3D environment, but the way they work and the results they produce are completely ...

In February 2022, the spiritual successor to Dark Souls, Elden Ring, was released. With George R. R. Martin as one of the writers and producers, and the game's development legend Hidetaka Miyazaki at ...

Elden Ring doesn’t look great. It’s serviceable, but it’s a step backward in image quality compared to Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and Dark Souls 3, at least to me. While I was playing, I kept thinking ...

Every few years, it seems like there's an amazing new technology with the promise of making games look ever more realistic. Over the decades, we've had shaders, tessellation, shadow mapping, ray ...

Full ray tracing or path tracing is only available in a handful of titles, but the results are as mind-blowingly impressive as they are taxing on a graphics card. Cyberpunk 2077, Alan Wake II, and ...

Kyle has a degree in Film, Television, and Cultural Studies and has loved video games for as long as he can remember. He's owned every PlayStation, dabbled with the occasional Xbox, and even owned a ...

Unless you're a physicist, you probably don't pay too much mind to the function of light in your daily life. Light is light, right? When there is light, we see, and when there isn't, we don't. But ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Simply put, path tracing is a more advanced form of ray tracing which relies upon simulating the ...