Minecrafter players are running into some problems Monday morning. According to Downdetector, the sandbox video game platform was dealing with problems Monday morning with more than 800 reports of ...

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 ...

Alexa, are you down right now? If she doesn't say anything, you know the answer. According to Downdetector, there were nearly 200 reports of issues with Amazon Alexa as of Tuesday evening around 6 p.m ...

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 ...

Mojang is currently working on the next major Minecraft content update, Chaos Cubed, and that means public testing is ongoing via the snapshot system. The latest update to the Minecraft Java Edition ...

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 ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. How do you play with your friends in Minecraft? It all depends which ...

The video game adaptation curse doesn’t exist anymore. Everything from Arcane to Fallout has proven that it's possible to reinvent a beloved video game franchise while holding reverence toward the ...

Five years ago, Minecraft ventured out into a different genre. Known for its world building, the Minecraft series attempted to dive into dungeon crawling with 2021's Minecraft Dungeons. Mojang had so ...

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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