Minecraft Launcher can stop before Windows downloads anything useful. In Microsoft Store, the button may sit on Pending, Starting download, or Acquiring license. Sometimes the screen shows the ...

Minecrafter players are running into some problems Saturday morning. According to Downdetector, the sandbox video game platform was dealing with problems Saturday morning with more than 400 reports of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Taking place ages before the events of the first game, Smalland II: The Lost Realms brings you back down to size and into an expanded world filled with mythical creatures that are attuned to the ...

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 26.2 Pre-Release 1 removes peer-to-peer multiplayer support. Mojang Studios states that the feature was not ready for release and requires further stability. Friends list support will remain ...

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 Java Edition is finally getting a native Friends List and peer-to-peer multiplayer, letting players join each other’s worlds without setting up a server, Realms, or relying on third-party ...

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 ...

"Minecraft" world-building has evolved far beyond traditional base-building, turning simple seeds into living, handcrafted story worlds that feel more like handcrafted works than procedurally ...