Minecraft Java Edition 26.3 Snapshot 9 arrives a day earlier than expected, with a practical change for Realms owners: more control over how far the game renders and how much of the world is simulated ...

Winners & losers: For the first time in nearly two decades, Mojang has announced a significant change in Minecraft's hardware requirements, a rare move for one of the biggest gaming products in ...

With Minecraft: Java Edition getting a big rendering upgrade with Vulkan, it was time for the system requirements to get adjusted. The game is now 17+ years old, and their previous recommendations ...

Minecrafter players are running into some problems Saturday morning. According to Downdetector, the sandbox video game platform was dealing with problems Saturday morning with more than 400 reports of ...

The Protect Our Games Act–a piece of legislation endorsed by the Stop Killing Games movement–has been voted down at the California State Senate. However, one of the most noteworthy incidents from this ...

The ESA has made the head-scratching claim that private Minecraft servers are "illegal," arguing that they're considered a form of "piracy" in a recent hearing. During a California State Senate ...

In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921, California's Stop Killing Games-endorsed bill to compel publishers to provide ...

Minecraft servers are "illegal" and "not in any way affiliated with Microsoft or Mojang." At least, that's what Jennifer Gibbons, Vice President of State Government Affairs at the Entertainment ...

Minecraft is once again expanding its world, but this time the biggest changes are happening beneath the surface. With the release of the Minecraft version 26.2 Java Chaos Cubed update, Mojang has ...

Mojang has started rolling out the Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 update, called Chaos Cubed, bringing a new underground biome, a new mob, additional blocks, a Friends List feature, and experimental ...

Minecraft Java Edition finally debuts a built-in Friends list feature. Players can invite friends to join their world without servers or Realms. This feature works similarly to the Bedrock Edition ...