Minecraft has changed a lot since its early days, but one thing has stayed surprisingly consistent. Survival Multiplayer, better known as SMP, continues to be one of the most popular ways to ...

Minecraft's vast online realms will be easier to join, Microsoft says at the E3 show, and game consoles will play nice with Windows and phones. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The Entertainment Software Association, in its infinite wisdom, has told a California Senate committee that private and community servers are illegal and amount to piracy.

Even though Minecraft is mostly a single-player game, many people from all around the world hop on various servers and play together. They have the option to make their own multiplayer server or join ...

So, you're tired of having your house blown up and stuff stolen on the public server you play on? Finding the best Minecraft servers to play on is oftentimes a hit or miss. You want your own private ...

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 urges admins of self-hosted Minecraft servers to upgrade to the latest release to defend against Khonsari ransomware attacks exploiting the critical Log4Shell security vulnerability. Mojang ...

Mojang is scaling back expectations for its next major Minecraft update. The studio recently confirmed a significant feature removal for the Java Edition 26.2 pre-release that changes how players ...