Minecraft has evolved from a simple block-building sandbox into a canvas for complex shonen fantasies, with 2026 marking a peak year for anime-themed modifications. Recent updates to major mods like ...

Minecraft Java Edition 1.21, officially known as the Tricky Trials update (often colloquially linked to the Armadillo mob), has arrived with significant changes to world generation and map APIs. While ...

Oracle’s Java team sat down with me last week for a fast-moving briefing on Java 25 and the broader direction of the platform. The headline: JDK 25 is an LTS release, the second on Oracle’s new ...

The Minecraft Chaos Cubed update has just landed on the Java side of the sandbox game, and I'm already eager to see what the wealth of inventive Minecraft creators and modders can do with its ...

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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 ...

Simon and co. did say that Hytale is both a block game and an engine. And boy, were they right. While we’ve seen some incredible mods so far, there are some really silly ones. From Doom running in ...

The world seemingly let out a collective "aww" after Mojang revealed its redesign for baby farm animal mobs in Minecraft the first week of January. The chunkier, wide-eyed glow-ups have made every ...

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Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...

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Happy Birthday, Java! Even as rivals Python and Rust claim the spotlight, proponents say the 30-year-old language will continue to forge ahead. Introduced by Sun Microsystems on May 23, 1995, Java is ...