Minecraft, created by Markus "Notch" Persson long before it became the most successful game of all time and a $2bn payday to Microsoft, was written in Java. Notch obfuscated the code to prevent others ...

There are different things and ways to explore in Minecraft, but Java Edition servers, in particular, offer some of the best exploration players can hope to come across. Completely free for everyone ...

The “Imagination Island” world in the Minecraft with RTX beta — ray tracing enabled Image: Mojang/Xbox Game Studios via Blockworks, Nvidia With Minecraft’s new ray-traced visual overhaul now live in ...

Titled Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition for PC, the newly merged version “will become the standard and only offering of vanilla Minecraft on Windows PC,” according to Mojang’s announcement. While the ...

Typically, when players want to play Minecraft on their mobile devices, they have to do so through a version of the game that runs on the Bedrock Edition codebase. The mobile version was formerly ...

Mojang announced a big change is coming to Minecraft: Java Edition, one that could make it a whole lot easier to make mods ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While you may be limited to which version of Minecraft you can play based on the device you're using, there are some important differences between ...

The wild success of Minecraft didn't come without its problems, one of which was that the original game was coded in Java. This is still the version some players prefer, for a laundry list of reasons, ...