The Glacier 2 engine received another upgrade this week, and this one adds in a bunch of new features for DirectX 12 support.

New technology from Nvidia could soon see every person becoming a digital artist.

It turns out you don't need a fancy new RTX card to get some ray-tracing in your games anymore. Though if you want the best performance, you're still going to want to spend a fortune on the top of the range RTX cards.

Nvidia recently revealed its new 1660Ti, which is a Turing-based card like the new RTX ones – only without the stuff that makes the latest Turning cards interesting and appealing. Now, there’s a another card. The 1660 without the Ti bit on the end is available from today, coming in at a very palatable £199/ $219. The suggested local pricing is around R3699 including VAT.

Nvidia has gone and bought tech company and fellow chip-manufacturer Mellanox. The deal will see the conglomerate acquire all of the Israeli chip-maker’s issued and outstanding common shares for $125 each, a share portion to amounts to around $6.9 billion. While the acquisition had been in the rumour mill for some time, the purchase comes a few months after Intel …

Today Nvidia announces the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti, a brand new card for the mid-range market that replaces both the outgoing GTX 1060 6GB and the GTX 1070 8GB. It does so without really pushing either card out the way because it lacks the additional 2GB of VRAM that the GTX 1070 boasts, but it's just fast enough to make the GTX 1060 6GB look like the worse deal.

One game that you probably won’t see released in a complete format this year? Cloud Imperium’s Star Citizen, which is currently still limping towards an unknowable finish line while shedding modules of minor content to appease the few true believers, like some sort of space-leper. What little Star Citizen content is out in the wild, does have one benefit though: It kind of looks visually neat. Even without Nvidia's fancy Ray tracing technology.

Google’s Android platform has no doubt dominated the mobile OS market, but it appears the company is still pursuing even further dominance in the market but this time looking to make their own chipsets as well.