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How Minecraft Finds New Life with Ray Tracing

This article is presented by NVIDIA. When you think of games that benefit from NVIDIA’s top of the range GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs, there are plenty of AAA titles that immediately spring to mind: Control, Cyberpunk 2077, Watch Dogs: Legion, and other next-gen releases. But what about a game with as long a legacy as Minecraft? Yes, the best selling video game of all time may run on everything from Xbox 360 to Amazon’s Fire TV Stick, but the original blocky survival sandbox gets a surprising new lease on life on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series graphics cards and…
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Minecraft 1.17: What the Caves and Cliffs Update Changes Mean for the Game

The Minecraft 1.17 Caves and Cliffs update is one of the largest, most anticipated changes to the beloved sandbox game since its introduction a decade ago, but players will have to wait on some parts a bit longer than anticipated. Mojang has announced that Caves and Cliffs will be split into two releases with some modifications arriving on schedule this summer and others being pushed back for a holiday season release. Frustration or disappointment may prompt fans to wonder why the decision was made and which upgrades will not be included in round one. Mojang’s announcement placed much of the…
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Minecraft Movie Release Date Delayed Indefinitely by Warner Bros.

Production of the Minecraft movie has encountered another setback as Warner Bros. delays nearly all of their major upcoming productions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As The Hollywood Reporter notes, the Minecraft movie was recently scheduled to be released on March 4, 2022. Now, though, Warner Bros. confirms that the movie’s release has been pushed back from that date and that no updated release date for the project is available at this time. While it’s entirely possible that WB is just trying to find the best way to squeeze Minecraft into their now-chaotic production schedule, we wouldn’t be surprised…
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Minecraft Caves Update: The Big Changes Coming to the Game with 1.17

Minecraft was already the perfect activity for quarantine, and when version 1.16 brought an update to the nether in June, many fans began punching trees again to see the changes for themselves. But as big as the new biomes in the nether were, they’re small potatoes compared to what Mojang announced at Minecraft Live on Oct. 3: the next big update fans have been requesting for years. That’s right — Minecraft 1.17 will finally make changes to caves! In fact, the “Caves and Cliffs” update, as it’s called, uses alliteration to include the mountain biome modifications that Minecraft Live attendees…
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