Ray tracing is the hot new graphics tech of 2021, and Nvidia have just announced another fresh crop of ray tracing and DLSS games that are coming to PC later this year. To help you keep track of them all, I’ve created this list of all the confirmed ray tracing games you can play on PC right now, as well which ones will be getting ray tracing support in the future. And because ray tracing tends to go hand in hand with Nvidia’s performance-boosting DLSS tech these days, I’ve also listed all the current and upcoming games that support DLSS as well.

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The tree is in the attic, there isn’t a scrap of chocolate left in the house, and those that took annual leave at the start of the year — the people we were all jealous of — are now back. 2021 is well and truly underway.

Well, sort of.

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Hot off the heels of the RTX 3060 Ti‘s launch at the end of last year, Nvidia have finally announced the regular version of the RTX 3060. It will be launching in late February for $329. That’s not all, either, as Nvidia also announced that their RTX 30 series GPUs will be coming to laptops, too, with RTX 3060, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080 models arriving in just a couple of weeks time.

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Adobe today put another nail in the coffin of Flash, making it so the Flash Player can no longer play all these games and animations and things. The company announced officially ended support for the Flash Player on December 31st, after prophesising its death back in 2017, and today they straight stop it from working. However, you can still play and watch a lot of the Flash classics, thanks to the efforts of enthusiast archivists.

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It’s not long now until Dead Cells takes a deadly descent into its next paid expansion. Motion Twin and Evil Empire just announced the hack ‘n’ slash roguelite’s Fatal Fall DLC will launch on January 26th, bringing with it new biomes, new enemies and new weapons with which to whack ’em.

One of those weapons is a lantern, which I thought maybe you’d just shine at enemies, but judging from the trailer below it seems you’ll be using that to clobber baddies to death too.

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Over the Christmas hols I dipped my kusarigama back into Nioh 2, an action RPG that blends the crushing difficulty of soulslikes with Diablo’s emphasis on loot hoovering. In hindsight, this was quite an intimidating game to play post figgy pudding, especially as it’s all about carving up twisted demons.

Boy did it make me feel alive, though. And with Nioh 2: Complete Edition arriving on Steam in February, I thought it would be good to remind everyone that while, yes, it is full of scary monsters, it is full of very nice and cute monsters, too.

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AMD have announced their superb Ryzen 5000 CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs are coming to laptops. There will be over 150 different laptops with AMD’s new Ryzen 5000 HX series CPUs and RDNA 2 GPUs launching in 2021, and the first ones will be arriving in February. Here’s everything you need to know.

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Riot Games are dropping a sneaky new character into Valorant later tonight. His name is Yoru, and not only can he go invisible, but he can fake the sound of teammates’ footsteps and teleport to get the drop on everyone. He sounds like a lot of fun to play, and a lot less fun to play against. He’s arriving with the tactical shooter’s second Episode, along with a new battle pass, and a host of balance tweaks for agents like Omen and Brimstone.

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Elder Scrolls and Fallout publishers Bethesda Softworks today announced an Indiana Jones game, of all things. It’s being made by MachineGames, the studio who revived Wolfenstein starting with The New Order. They say the mystery game will have an original story, so don’t expect a direct adaptation of the Harrison Ford adventure films. Beyond that, it’s a mystery. And apparently not due out for a while. For now, come watch the teeny teaser trailer.

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Today, Blizzard add a brand new deathmatch map to Overwatch. It’s a pleasant surprise considering I thought they’d be neck-deep in Overwatch 2 development by now. Turns out the surprise is even nicer however, because the new map comes with a cat café (!) as well as a challenge to unlock a new Hanzo skin, and it launches later today.

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