Searching for a new graphics card used to be much more straightforward. You could simply select the resolution you wanted to play at and see how the competition stacked up. Native resolution remains the golden standard for performance and image quality, but image upscaling and upsampling is all the rage these days. Nvidia ignited the modern trend with its Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) technology, but now AMD, Intel, and even the Unreal Engine are getting into the action, rendering games at lower resolution (and thus at higher frame rates) before using software tricks to upscale the final image to your screen's resolution. But how do you measure the subjective quality of each competing option?

While the teasers, announcements and presentations of big publishers often steal the show at every E3 convention, there are always some games made by smaller developers that can immediately grab the attention of gamers. This year's E3 hosts a number of wonderfully artistic and charming indie games that some attendees may have overlooked. E3 2021 featured the Guerrilla Collective, a digital festival of sorts that's dedicated to putting lesser-known developers and publishers in the spotlight. This year, they showed off over 70 new games across a plethora of genres, from action-adventure to horror and everything in between. Here are some of the most interesting indie games to look forward to this year.