Winners & losers: For the first time in nearly two decades, Mojang has announced a significant change in Minecraft's hardware requirements, a rare move for one of the biggest gaming products in ...

Despite getting updates every few months, Minecraft's developers had managed to avoid raising the system requirements for Java Edition until now. However, that has finally changed, as Mojang has ...

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TL;DR: Microsoft raised Minecraft: Java Edition's minimum and recommended PC specs for the first time in 17 years, effective July 21: recommended 16GB RAM, a 2020s CPU, and a GPU with ≥6GB VRAM for ...

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In 55 countries, the popular video game has been used to engage children in the process of urban design. Credit...Ahmad Schinder/Catalytic Action Supported by By Natalie Donback Like many children in ...

Minecraft Java Edition 26.2 — officially named Chaos Cubed — is scheduled to launch on June 16, 2026, bringing with it a new underground biome, a mob with a physics-simulation twist, an experimental ...

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 ...

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