Ray tracing and path tracing are two major technologies shaping modern gaming graphics and graphics rendering in 2026. In this graphics comparison, both techniques improve lighting, reflections, and ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for GameRant since 2015. She kicked off her video game journey after meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. After years of playing them, she decided ...

IO Interactive, the developers behind the Hitman series, show off many of the new engine upgrades powering 007 First Light's visual effects.

The recently revealed Forza Horizon 6 gameplay trailer looks absolutely stunning, there’s no doubt about that. While many eyes were tricked into believing it features ray-traced reflections, shadows, ...

Eight years after Nvidia promised ray tracing would revolutionize gaming, most gamers still disable it. So what happened, and did RTX buyers get sold a fantasy ...

The penchant for video games to develop better graphical capabilities has been ingrained into development DNA since the first playable games were released decades ago. Fast forward to current times ...

First Light is shown running on a GTX 1650 at playable frame rates with software ray tracing, showcasing the engine's flexibility.

There was a long period of time where the phrase 'ray tracing' was almost inescapable and slapped onto all the prettiest-looking games. However, as the memory crisis continues to devastate hardware ...

The reflections are nice, but the RTGI is poor.

id has revealed that, if it hadn't updated its idtech engine to use ray tracing instead of pre-baked global illumination, Doom: The Dark Ages could have taken far longer to develop and been a much ...

Virtuos seems to be well equipped to make some very good ports of games on Nintendo’s newest platform. Eoin O’Grady, Technical Director at Virtuos’ subsidiary game studio Black Shamrock, has shared ...

The upcoming next-generation consoles from Sony and Microsoft, the PS6 and Xbox Next, are expected to bring big improvements in ray tracing that will deliver better performance. The leaked ...