Meccha Chameleon has taken the gaming world by storm, in part thanks to its great party-game mechanics. Along with the rapid ...

Biomods Subnautica 2 are clever DNA changes that will change your character for the better, unlocked by scanning various flora, fauna and sea creatures. But, while grabbing the first four Biomods is ...

Need to install Java on your Mac to run a particular application? While most Mac users will never need Java, there are ...

The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...

Minecraft has technically been the same game for years. But honestly, Java and Bedrock sometimes feel like two completely different versions pretending to be identical. And players argue about it ...

To enable Vulkan, players need to go to Options -> video settings -> graphics API -> prefer Vulkan. At the time of writing, this is an experimental feature and can be tested in Minecraft 26.1 ...

Cobblemon is a free, open-source Pokémon mod for Minecraft Java Edition that lets you catch, train, battle, and trade Pokémon inside the Minecraft world. With over 21 million downloads and a thriving ...

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 ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...