GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Update: The RTX open beta for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is now live. It is not supported in the Java version. The update introduces the new Bastion ...

Jack Peachey is a features writer who's worked at Dualshockers and Game Rant. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not ...

Minecraft: Java Edition tests upcoming changes and updates through pre-release snapshots. On Wednesday, Mojang Studios began releasing Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 22w45a to interested players.

Minecraft: Java Edition tests future updates and changes through preview builds known as snapshots. The latest snapshot, 21w14a, is smaller than previous snapshots with a couple of minor changes and ...

The wild success of Minecraft didn't come without its problems, one of which was that the original game was coded in Java. This is still the version some players prefer, for a laundry list of reasons, ...