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More titles are about to support Nvidia technologies.

This week is kind of packed as far as game releases are concerned. Hell, this entire month has been rather stacked for game releases. All these new releases mean that at least some of them support various Nvidia technologies like DLSS 3, Nvidia Reflex, and some ray-tracing options.

This week's game releases supporting some or all of these Nvidia technologies include Dragon Age: The Veilguard, Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered,...

This mod has been updated with RTX Remix.

Nvidia announced and released Portal: Prelude RTX, a remaster of a 2008 mod. This update includes updated visuals, support for raytracing, DLSS 3 support, and is the first game to publicly use RTX I/O.

Raytracing and DLSS 3 are both rather self-explanatory as several games have come out featuring these technologies already. RTX I/O stands for RTX Input/Output and is a new way for your GPU to reduce the load times for large amounts...

It's Portal but now with ray-traced cake.

Nvidia's GTC keynote earlier today contained news about the new (and very expensive) 40-series of RTX cards. In addition, the company also announced Portal with RTX. As you can probably assume from its name, this is an RTX-enhanced version of the classic puzzle game from Valve.

Portal with RTX includes updated visuals along with real-time ray tracing. It seems as though a bulk of the grunt work on Portal with RTX is being handled...

Don't worry, they're probably sold out already anyway.

Nvidia's Computex presentation brought some tasty new, but expected, announcements last night. First up, the technology giant announced two new entries in their GTX 30xx GPU series. These are the RTX 3080 Ti and the RTX 3070 Ti.

The RTX 3080 Ti will "launch" on June 3 for $1,199 (USD). It includes 12GB of GDDR6X memory, a whole 2GB increase over the vanilla GTX 3080 card and half of the GTX 3090. That price...

The PC release is happening first with a console release coming later.

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition was announced back in February 2021 for the PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. This release of the game can be considered a graphical remaster of the original release. Though this will be a free release for existing owners of Metro Exodus, you will need hardware capable of real-time ray tracing to even run it. There are no exceptions to this.

Metro Exodus Enhanced...

Ray tracing support mentioned in Artifact's game files.

Valve recently made an update to their digital card game Artifact. That isn't the big news here, what is the big news is that hidden within the files were a couple of references to RTX and real-time ray tracing. This marks the first time that any sort of ray tracing support was noticed in any of Valve's Source 2 files.

The mentions were first discovered by SteamDB creator Pavel Djundik. Djundik noticed that the latest...

You now need an RTX 3080 for 4K with ray tracing.

Ubisoft has updated their system requirements for Watch Dogs: Legion today. Previously, you would be able to max out the game with all of its bells, whistles, and RTX capabilities at 4K with "only" an Intel i7-9700K and a GeForce RTX 2080 Ti.

Now, it seems as though the same settings (Ultra at 4K with RTX) will require one of the new Nvidia RTX 3080 cards. This is now paired with an Intel Core i9-9900K. Yes, both...

You now need a beefy rig to run Minecraft.

The beta for Minecraft with RTX is now available on Windows 10. You can download it, play it, and if your PC supports it, you can even enable real-time ray tracing via RTX. There is also support for physically-based materials and NVIDIA DLSS 2.0. Of course, you'll need to have a supported GeForce RTX GPU to actually make "proper" use of the tech.

A quick RTX on vs RTX off comparison can be seen below.

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Real-time raytracing added to the game in the latest update.

A new update for Deliver Us the Moon, was released that should make RTX video card owners rather happy. The new update incorporated new real-time ray tracing support for this sci-fi focused adventure. In addition to the lovely ray tracing, the game also includes global illumination lighting. All in all, this should make for a real nice looking game for those with the hardware to push it to the max.

In addition...

What's old is new again.

Nvidia just released the "official announce trailer" today for Quake II RTX, or Quake II with real-time ray tracing for those not in the know. There will be a free release to Windows and Linux users on June 6. Please note that this is not the same as the user created mod called "Q2VKPT."

But what exactly is Quake II RTX? It's the beloved classic FPS, Quake II, with modern, real-time ray tracing technology added to it. This...

With today's update to the game, Battlefield V is now the first game out there to support DirectX's real-time ray tracing (DXR). If you own an Nvidia 20xx card, you may want to check it out for yourself. Or maybe don't, because the performance hit is, to put it mildly, massive.
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As you probably heard by now, if you read some previous news posts here, NVIDIA held their pre-Gamescom 2018 event today. During the event, they announced that their Turing powered lineup of graphics cards will be released starting on September 20. They're making the jump from the 10xx line straight up to 20xx cards, beginning with the $499 (USD) RTX 2070. The GeForce RTX 2080 will go for $799. The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will start at $1,199. RTX? Yep. Nvidia is also re-branding from "GTX" ...