Vanilla Minecraft works on a basic rendering engine and extremely pixellated textures on blocks. This makes the game's graphics look quite dated compared to other popular games. Over the years, ...

Minecraft's gorgeous biomes and terrain generation come at quite a steep price in terms of performance. Its art style is also one of its greatest curses. Due to Mojang rendering all loaded chunks at ...

Samit Sarkar (he/him) is Polygon’s deputy managing editor. He has more than 17 years of experience covering video games, movies, television, and technology. “Path tracing simulates the way light is ...

Minecraft is about to start looking a whole lot better with the introduction of the Super Duper Graphics Pack, originally introduced during E3 2017. Previously it was announced for those who play ...