Overhauling Minecraft's world generation was like 'trying to build a skyscraper with hand tools' which basically scared Mojang off of continuing massive yearly updates

Mojang got so in over its head overhauling all of Minecraft's world generation tech five years ago that it swore off yearly title updates not long after.
Reporters Without Borders

World Day Against Cyber Censorship: RSF unveils new US room in its Minecraft Uncensored Library

To mark World Day Against Cyber Censorship on March 12, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has opened a new room in the Uncensored Library, a virtual library within Minecraft, the world’s best selling ...
Game Rant

New Open-World Game on Steam is Basically Minecraft if it were Made with Crash Test Dummies

If you’re looking for a Minecraft alternative beyond the extremely similar Hytale, this wacky Steam game starring crash test ...
GIGAZINE

Work begins to change the Java version of Minecraft's renderer from OpenGL to Vulkan

After 17 years, Minecraft Java Edition starts replacing OpenGL with a Vulkan multi-threaded renderer — update will prove a boon for performance and modding | Tom's ...
TechSpot

Minecraft Java Edition is finally moving from OpenGL to multi-threaded Vulkan

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 ...
Game Rant

Minecraft Player Builds Incredible Sailing Ship With Working Cannons

Tyler Shipley is an editor for GameRant who has been writing for the team since 2021. Tyler has a degree in English from the University of Toledo. Some of his favorite games are platformers, but he ...
GamingOnLinux

Minecraft Java is switching from OpenGL to Vulkan for the Vibrant Visuals update

Work continues for the Vibrant Visuals update to come to Minecraft Java, and as part of that they're switching the rendering from OpenGL to Vulkan. Announced today (February 18th) by Mojang developers ...
The Independent

X down: Twitter not working in major outage

X has stopped working in what appears to be a major outage. The site, formerly known as Twitter, refused to load in both its app and website form. Opening the website instead showed the company’s “X” ...