After more than 16 years, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally moving away from the aging OpenGL graphics system and upgrading to Vulkan, a modern multi-threaded rendering API. The change, announced by ...

Looking ahead: The first official visual upgrade in Minecraft's 16-year history was released last June for Bedrock Edition players. However, the original Java version has a long road ahead of it ...

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Minecraft updated its Education Edition with free, downloadable content that places its players inside a simulated Black Lives Matter protest, prompting backlash from critics who argue the game is ...

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In a fittingly full-circle sort of way, it's taken avid Minecraft enjoyers only a couple of days to splice the best parts of the game that inspired Hytale into Hytale, letting those who have waited ...

The world seemingly let out a collective "aww" after Mojang revealed its redesign for baby farm animal mobs in Minecraft the first week of January. The chunkier, wide-eyed glow-ups have made every ...

Minecraft's getting marginally cuter with its next update, as it continues to pretend it isn't designed for the express purpose of teaching innocent children that in order to survive, you've sometimes ...

Grab your dragons and don't forget those quests, as a Dragon Quest VII Reimagined demo is set to pop up on Steam this week. It'll offer a taster of the revamped RPG ahead of full release next month, ...

Minecraft Java snapshots will now use a new version numbering system starting with Minecraft 26.1. The latest snapshot also brings a balanced villager trading system and a revamped lighting system. A ...

"Minecraft" world-building has evolved far beyond traditional base-building, turning simple seeds into living, handcrafted story worlds that feel more like handcrafted works than procedurally ...