ReSpec is a bit different this week. I’ve spent the week in sunny San Francisco at the Game Developers Conference (GDC), running from meeting to meeting and trying to find a moment of time to write a ...

Why it matters: As more high-end games require hardware-accelerated ray tracing, users continue disparaging the technology over its high computational cost and significant performance hit. One of ...

TL;DR: NVIDIA will release the Path Tracing Patch for DOOM: The Dark Ages on June 18, enhancing in-game lighting with advanced ray-traced effects. This upgrade offers more vibrant visuals and ...

Rollercoaster Tycoon wasn’t the most fashionable computer game out there in 1999. But if you took a look beneath the pixels—the rickety rides, the crowds of hungry, thirsty, barfing people (and the ...

In a surprising move, one of the studios that is working on Battlefield 6 revealed that the game won’t feature any ray tracing at all. Not only is this feature not planned for launch, but there are ...

Battlefield 6 doesn't have ray-tracing, and its developer has said there are no plans to add the feature down the line. While ray-tracing has been notably missing from Battlefield 6's open beta tests, ...