Part of Minecraft's charm has always been its simple, blocky, pixelated aesthetic. With more items than ever and some retextures over the years, vanilla Minecraft looks slightly less grassroots than ...

This is a simple demonstration on how to implement a ray traced version of the Water Shader on Minecraft with Iris. This project was put together with the help of taigaclaw and his voxelization ...

Microsoft first rolled out Advanced Shader Delivery in its SDK last September and added support to the ROG Xbox Ally as a proof of concept by October. Microsoft said that the addition reduced launch ...

This is a major part of what causes those agonizing initial load times and those infuriating in-game "traversal stutters." ASD flips the script, allowing perfectly pre-compiled shaders to be delivered ...

Advanced Shader Delivery (ADC) is coming to Windows for PC game developers, eliminating the shader compilation process while ...

Intel's latest Arc driver introduces its Graphics Shader Distribution Service, cutting first load times by up to 2x on Arc B-series GPUs. The post Intel Arc update adds pre-compiled shaders to speed ...

Minecraft has always been a game about creativity, survival, and the absolute freedom of making whatever you want in the game. But let’s face one thing – the blocky graphics might not seem pleasing to ...

The Tiny Takeover patch is here, introducing adorable new baby versions of mobs with updated visuals and audio, plus a new flower that can stop baby mobs from aging up. Below, we've got a summary of ...

The first Minecraft game drop of 2026 has just been released, and it might be the cutest update that Mojang has ever made. The Minecraft 26.1 update is officially named Tiny Takeover, and it focuses ...

Tech | New PS5, £289. Is this the best Black Friday console deal so far? The new slim PS5 Digital can be fitted with a disc drive, too.