As announced earlier this week, the GeForce 452.06 driver offers additional support for the WoW Shadowlands beta. You can head into the Blizzard site to opt-in to get an opportunity at beta access, as always.

The folks at Wowhead have caught a load of contrast shots to reveal what people ray-traced shadows look like. It's a pity WoW ray tracing won't go beyond shadows for now, because the stylised design and simple character models would look incredible under the spotlight of extremely realistic lighting.

Blizzard first detailed Shadowlands at Blizzcon 2019. The expansion includes five brand new zones for players to explore, a pumped leveling system which compresses the older you to 60 levels and new personalization options, including the choice to buy wow gold classic modify the gender of your character without paying a fee.