The Minecraft landscape in 2026 is more fragmented and dynamic than ever, with Earth SMPs like EarthMC evolving into massive, player-driven geopolitical simulations while the gap between Bedrock and ...

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In Polygon's new documentary we follow a competitive public school Minecraft tournament where kids are empowered to reimagine ...

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How did a nine-year-old game about competitive pottery get resurrected as Psychonauts 2 developer Double Fine’s next game? “I'm still trying to figure that out,” says Derek Brand, project lead on ...

A popular 2016 multiplayer game is unexpectedly shutting down soon on all platforms, including the PS5 and PS4. Rec Room is a free multiplayer social hub of sorts where players from all over the world ...

The first Minecraft game drop of 2026 has just been released, and it might be the cutest update that Mojang has ever made. The Minecraft 26.1 update is officially named Tiny Takeover, and it focuses ...

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Marathon's recent tweak to gun noises is the latest example of how, in 2026, games can't solidify into anything special Halo Marathon Multiplayer update Earlier this week, Marathon received its first ...

From Skyrim Together to the more recently released Witcher Online, modders bringing multiplayer to big single player games isn’t new. Folks spend hundreds of hours mucking about in Tamriel or on The ...

After more than 16 years, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally moving away from the aging OpenGL graphics system and upgrading to Vulkan, a modern multi-threaded rendering API. The change, announced by ...