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Emerging Trends in Game Art: Real-Time Rendering, Stylized Game Art, and Beyond

iXie gaming

MARCH 28, 2025

By 2026, the gaming industry is expected to reach $321 billion , with real-time rendering and AI-driven game art playing a pivotal role in its growth. The Impact of Ray Tracing and Global Illumination Ray tracing, once confined to high-budget CGI productions, is now a staple in modern game development.

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5 VR Trends in 2025

Played with Fire

JANUARY 27, 2025

Thanks to advancements in real-time rendering technologies, such as ray tracing, and next-generation VR headsets, users can now experience environments that look and feel almost indistinguishable from reality. AI enhances virtual worlds by introducing smarter, more responsive non-playable characters (NPCs) in games and simulations.

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Flexible and Powerful Ray Tracing with NVIDIA OptiX 8

Nvidia

AUGUST 7, 2023

NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, In the realm of computer graphics, achieving photorealistic visuals has been a long-sought goal. NVIDIA OptiX is a powerful and flexible ray-tracing framework, enabling you to harness the potential of ray tracing. Rendered with Chaos V-Ray.

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New Ray-Tracing, AI, Cloud, and Virtual World Tools Simplify Game Development at GDC 2022

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2022

Easier ray-tracing integration for games with Kickstart RT In 2018, NVIDIA Turing architecture changed the game with real-time ray tracing. This scene highlights ray tracing, global illumination, ambient occlusion, and ray traced shadows, enabled through KickStart SDK.

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RTX for Indies: Stunning Ray-Traced Lighting Achieved with RTXGI in Action-Platformer Escape from Naraka

Nvidia

JULY 29, 2021

Developed by XeloGames, an indie studio of just three, and published by Headup Games, Escape from Naraka achieves eye-catching ray-traced lighting using RTX. Escape from Naraka was made in Unreal Engine 4, using NVIDIA’s NvRTX branch to bring ray tracing and DLSS into production.

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NVIDIA at GDC 2021: RTX and AI Sees New Platforms, New Development Tools, New Updates, and a New SDK

Nvidia

JULY 23, 2021

Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Increasingly, game developers are making full use of real-time ray tracing and AI in their games. Now, NVIDIA ray tracing and AI are making their premiere on Arm and Linux systems.

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Graphics – Top Resources from GTC 21

Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

Engineers, product developers and designers worldwide attended GTC to learn how the latest NVIDIA technologies are accelerating real-time, interactive rendering and simulation workflows. We showcased the latest NVIDIA-powered AI and real-time ray tracing tools that have made creativity faster and easier for artists and designers.

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NVIDIA DLSS Natively Supported in Unity 2021.2

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

AI Super Resolution Tech Available Later This Year Unity made real-time ray tracing available to all of their developers in 2019 with the release of 2019LTS. AI Super Resolution Tech Available Later This Year Unity made real-time ray tracing available to all of their developers in 2019 with the release of 2019LTS.

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Year In Review: Trending Posts of 2022

Nvidia

JANUARY 3, 2023

Marking a year of new and evolving technologies, 2022 produced wide-ranging advancements and AI-powered solutions across industries. Marking a year of new and evolving technologies, 2022 produced wide-ranging advancements and AI-powered solutions across industries. Solving Entry-Level Edge AI Challenges with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano.

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Top Game Development Sessions at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Register for free and experience how NVIDIA is powering real-time ray tracing technologies and advanced AI capabilities that help users experience maximum game performance in both physical and virtual environments. Gameplay screenshot from the upcoming title Battlefield 2024.

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Try NVIDIA Game Development SDKs in the Interactive RTX Technology Showcase

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

RTX Technology Showcase project files are also available for further guidance and discovery of the benefits that ray tracing and AI brings to your projects. The ray tracing SDKs are available through NvRTX while DLSS is available as a UE 4.26

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Tips: Getting the Most out of the DLSS Unreal Engine 4 Plugin

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution. DLSS is a deep learning, super-resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher-resolution images.

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Leveling Up Graphics and Performance with RTX, DLSS and Reflex at NVIDIA GTC

Nvidia

APRIL 14, 2021

Developers can apply now for access to RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI), the latest advancement in real-time ray tracing. REAL TIME RAY TRACING MADE EASIER RTX Direct Illumination (RTXDI) Imagine adding millions of dynamic lights to your game environments without worrying about performance or resource constraints.

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How Generative AI is Changing the Gaming Landscape

iXie gaming

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Nearly every industry will evolve courtesy of generative artificial intelligence (AI) – and the gaming sector isn’t an exception. Generative AI is one of the technologies with the potential to revolutionize how developers create games. But what is generative AI? What is Generative AI? This enhances replayability.

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Shaping the Future of Graphics with NVIDIA Technologies in Unreal Engine 5

Nvidia

APRIL 5, 2022

We’ve created a series of introductory videos for NVIDIA technologies in UE5 including: Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) NVIDIA Reflex NVIDIA Omniverse Connector for UE5 The video below provides an overview for implementing ray tracing in Unreal Engine 5. Deep Learning Anti-Aliasing mode or DLAA.

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Elevate Game Content Creation and Collaboration with NVIDIA Omniverse

Nvidia

APRIL 7, 2021

Access new technology , such as Omniverse Simulation including PhysX 5, Flow, and Blast – plus NVIDIA AI SDKs and apps such as Omniverse Audio2Face, Omniverse Deep Search, and many more. Quickly build tools. Omniverse Kit is a powerful toolkit for developers to create new Omniverse apps and extensions.

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Game Development – New Resources from GTC 21

Nvidia

JUNE 4, 2021

You’ll learn how to leverage Nucleus for collaboration, AI for asset tagging, and USD and MDL for ground truth content creation and lighting using ray tracing. Maximize these ray-tracing settings with DLSS, which will boost the frame-rate of the Attic scene while maintaining a high resolution.

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New NVIDIA Updates for Unreal Engine Developers

Nvidia

AUGUST 31, 2021

UE4 plugin (Download here ) Leveraging the power of ray tracing, RTXGI provides scalable solutions to compute multi-bounce indirect lighting without bake times, light leaks, or expensive per-frame costs. It gives you the performance headroom to maximize ray tracing settings and increase output resolution. RTXGI 1.1.40

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Theia Interactive Generates Realistic and Interactive Scenes with DLSS and RTX Global Illumination

Nvidia

OCTOBER 28, 2021

DLSS is an AI-powered technology that boosts frame rates and generates sharp images. And DLSS makes real-time ray tracing possible. Theia Interactive looked to NVIDIA for a solution and integrated NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) and RTX Global Illumination (RTXGI) into the custom configurator.

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Change the Rules of the Game: NVIDIA Omniverse Brings an Arsenal of RTX and AI-Powered Apps, Extensions and DIY Toolkits to Accelerate Game Development Pipelines

Nvidia

JULY 22, 2021

Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools. Collaboration and simulation platform simplifies complex challenges like multi-app workflows, facial animation, asset searching, and building proprietary tools.

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The Best Tools to Improve Gameplay Performance

Nvidia

MARCH 24, 2021

From AI-accelerated techniques like Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) to powerful SDKs like NVIDIA Reflex, game developers are using the most advanced tools to reduce input latency and increase frame rates for gamers. With DLSS, users can maximize ray-tracing settings and increase output resolution.

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Top AI for Creative Applications Sessions at NVIDIA GTC 2023

Nvidia

MARCH 14, 2023

Learn how AI is boosting creative applications for creators during NVIDIA GTC 2023, March 20-23. Learn how AI is boosting creative applications for creators during NVIDIA GTC 2023, March 20-23.

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Unreal engine ArchViz – How UE is Revolutionizing the Architecture Industry?

Logic Simplified

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Path Tracing and Real-time Ray Tracing Enhanced path tracer - The Path Tracer in Unreal Engine is a DXR-accelerated progressive rendering mode that offers offline-quality rendering with ray-tracing architecture. Its Behavior tree editor is a visual editor that lets us create and edit behavior trees.

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NVIDIA RTX, Unreal Engine 5 Define Future of Game Development and Content Creation

Nvidia

MAY 26, 2021

This laid out a vision of a new era of computer graphics for video games that featured photorealistic, ray-traced lighting, AI-powered effects and complex worlds with massive amounts of geometry and high-resolution textures.

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Top Game Development Sessions at NVIDIA GTC 2023

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Join us for the latest on NVIDIA RTX and neural rendering technologies, and learn how they are accelerating game development. Join us for the latest on NVIDIA RTX and neural rendering technologies, and learn how they are accelerating game development.

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Top Game Development Sessions at NVIDIA GTC 2023

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Join us for the latest on NVIDIA RTX and neural rendering technologies, and learn how they are accelerating game development. Join us for the latest on NVIDIA RTX and neural rendering technologies, and learn how they are accelerating game development.

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NVIDIA DLSS Plugin and Reflex Now Available for Unreal Engine

Nvidia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

NVIDIA DLSS Plugin for UE4 DLSS is a deep learning super resolution network that boosts frame rates by rendering fewer pixels and then using AI to construct sharp, higher resolution images. Dedicated computational units on NVIDIA RTX GPUs called Tensor Cores accelerate the AI calculations, allowing the algorithm to run in real-time.

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Ray Tracing Gems II Available Today as Free Digital Download

Nvidia

AUGUST 4, 2021

Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. Ray Tracing Gems II is now available to download for free via Apress. Ray tracing is the holy grail of gaming graphics, simulating the physical behavior of light to bring real-time, cinematic-quality rendering to even the most visually intense games.

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NVIDIA RTX Neural Rendering Introduces Next Era of AI-Powered Graphics Innovation

Nvidia

JANUARY 6, 2025

Alongside these GPUs, NVIDIA introduced NVIDIA RTX Kit, a suite of neural rendering technologies to ray trace games with AI, render scenes with immense geometry, and create game characters with lifelike visuals. RTX Kit enhances geometry, textures, materials Source

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