Upscaling & Performance
Intel XeSS Explained: Upscaling, Frame Generation and Low Latency
How Intel XeSS works as of 2026: AI upscaling on XMX and DP4a, quality modes, XeSS 2 frame generation and XeLL, and XeSS 3 multi frame generation.
Elliot Varga
Elliot Varga is the pen name of the small independent editorial team behind Rendered News.
Rendering Explained
Path Tracing in Games Explained: Why ‘Full Ray Tracing’ Is Different
What path tracing is, how it differs from hybrid ray tracing, why it depends on denoising and upscaling, and the games that brought it to real time.
Rendering Explained
Lumen Explained: Unreal Engine 5’s Dynamic Global Illumination
How Lumen lights Unreal Engine 5 games in real time: bounce light, screen traces, the surface cache, software vs hardware ray tracing and common artifacts.
Rendering Explained
Nanite Explained: How Unreal Engine 5 Renders Billions of Triangles
How Unreal Engine 5's Nanite works: triangle clusters, a hierarchy of detail, streaming, software rasterization of tiny triangles, and its limits.
Making Games
How to Start Making Games: A Beginner’s Roadmap
A practical, step-by-step path for complete beginners: choose an engine, learn the basics, clone classics, finish tiny games, join jams and keep growing.
Making Games
How Video Games Are Made: From First Idea to Release
Follow a game from first idea to launch: concept, pre-production, prototyping, production, alpha, beta, certification, release and post-launch updates.
Game Engines
Unreal vs Unity vs Godot: Which Engine Should You Learn First?
A goals-based comparison of Unreal, Unity and Godot as of 2026: languages, learning curve, 2D vs 3D, licensing, platforms and which to learn first.
Game Engines
Godot Engine Explained: The Free, Open-Source Game Engine
What makes Godot different: the MIT license, scenes and nodes, GDScript and C#, its strong 2D tools, Godot 4's renderers and the games built with it.
Game Engines
Unity Engine Explained: What It Is and Why So Many Games Use It
How the Unity engine works: the editor, GameObjects and components, C# scripting, URP and HDRP, the Unity 6 release model and the games built with it.
Game Engines
Unreal Engine 5 Explained: Features, Tools and Who Uses It
A clear tour of Unreal Engine 5: Nanite, Lumen, World Partition, MetaHuman, PCG, Blueprints and C++, Fab, the version history and the games built on it.