# My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under

> At its State of Unreal event in Chicago, Epic Games officially unveiled Unreal Engine 5. 8, and one of its key new features is Lumen Lite: a scalability setting that targets the use of ray-traced global illumination for…

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- **Published:** 2026-06-18
- **Category:** Gaming
- **Tags:** #nintendo #nintendo-switch
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