A complete block-survival game, built from scratch in Swift + Metal. Every sound synthesized in real time. Every chunk carved from noise. Pebble is the open-source alternative to Minecraft: Java ...

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 One Block Skyblock, but every drop is random... Yes 1 block skyblock is back but this time with randomizer! Every drop is random in this one block skyblock video! Woman recognizes furniture ...

The Chaos Cubed update has officially landed in Minecraft Java Edition, and it is one of the finest content drops Mojang has delivered in years. From a brand-new underground biome packed with bubbling ...

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 ...

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 ...