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 ...

With Minecraft: Java Edition getting a big rendering upgrade with Vulkan, it was time for the system requirements to get adjusted. The game is now 17+ years old, and their previous recommendations ...

Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

Minecraft is set for another big update with a fresh Minecraft 26.3 Snapshot 4 ready for testing, and overall it's quite a big technical upgrade. They have finally moved on from the ancient GLFW which ...

You can now install Azure Linux on your own server. Azure Linux may prove a competitor to mainstream enterprise Linux distros. Is Windows Server long for this world ...

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 ...

Microsoft released its first full Linux distro: Azure Linux 4.0. Azure Linux ix split into Azure Container Linux and the virtual machine edition. Microsoft effectively admits that it's a de facto ...

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 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 ...