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.

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 ...

Minecraft creator Notch has called the ESA's comments about private Minecraft servers 'borderline evil'. The controversy began after an ESA executive described community Minecraft servers as illegal ...

The Entertainment Software Association's Jennifer Gibbons claimed that Minecraft servers were "illegal" and "not affiliated ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. Mojang’s blocky sandbox game is currently inaccessible–a rarity for ...

While the organizers behind Stop Killing Games remain optimistic about the movement's future, they've been dealt another blow ...

Discover the Minecraft 26.3 update featuring the Dappled Forest biome, Poplar wood, Shelf Mushrooms, and might release around ...

The ESA defeated the Protect Our Games Act in California while making an apparently spurious claim about private servers for ...

"I did not wish for my work to be used against people." ...

California's Protect Our Games Act, which would have required publishers to provide remedies when ending support for paid ...

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