Many times, you've heard the sayings that beauty is only skin deep and that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Definitions of beauty and the beautiful have preoccupied philosophers and artists for ...

As CPUs and GPUs continue to get more powerful with each new generation, the push for ever more realistic graphics in blockbuster games shows no signs of slowing down. Today's best-looking titles ...

Graphics menus are terrible. There are a few common graphics settings in PC games that explain themselves, but everything else? No one has time to learn about all of that. Drawing from my years of ...

With our GameTech video series, we breakdown the tech that drives the game's we love. And we've done a few quick PC graphics settings explainers, but here in text form, you can read about what we ...

Design disciplines are blurring. There’s perhaps no better example than supergraphics–large-scale environmental graphics that actively change the feeling of an entire space, or even an entire building ...

It’s no secret that the best games tend to come right at the end of a console’s life. After years of getting used to the hardware, developers can push the limits of what consoles can do and create ...

As hardware gets more powerful, it mainly enables two things: better graphics and better performance. The performance side is easy to understand – games will load faster, have higher frame rates, and ...

Modern graphics cards are intimidating, hulking beasts in a world of increasingly tiny PC components. Most of them are double-wide, occupying two expansion-slot spaces, even though they use only a ...

Sure, benchmarking your graphics card may sound like rocket science, but it’s not as difficult as you might think. Roll up your sleeves, because this guide will show you just how easy, enjoyable, and ...

Almost every desktop PC has one. They have billions of transistors, can use hundreds of watts of power, and can cost over a thousand dollars. They are masterpieces of ...