PC games started out with humble graphics and simple mechanics. Even if you weren’t born in the era of games with as basic graphics as Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, you’d still be aware of how graphics ...

Nvidia has unveiled the fifth iteration of its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology, which is capable of overlaying photorealistic visuals on top of in-game graphics in real-time. DLSS 5 ...

Nintendo graphics look fantastic — even on underpowered hardware, they’re great. Nintendo knows how to make characters and worlds with a strong visual flair. But what about hyper realistic graphics?

Modern graphics may look good, but former Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory Creative Director Clint Hocking argues that high-class rendering makes it difficult for players to read shadows. In a recent ...

Unreal, by Epic Games, was a pretty great video game back in 1998, but the impact of the game engine built to make it has been extraordinary. Currently in its fourth generation, the Unreal Engine is ...

Facebook Reality Labs, the company’s AR/VR R&D group, published detailed research on a method for hyper-realistic real-time virtual avatars, expanding on prior work which the company calls ‘Codec ...

Ray tracing has long been gaming's holy grail. A method of creating hyper-realistic lighting and graphics, for years ray tracing has been promised as the technology that will take games the next step ...

Nvidia’s DLSS 5 reveal triggered a wave of memes and backlash, with gamers on social media calling its AI-enhanced visuals uncanny, over-processed and harmful to game art direction. What Nvidia ...

AI has been an increasingly popular marketing tool in video game graphics lately. NVIDIA uses it with their DLSS, for instance, which allows them to offer a significant performance boost when running ...

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