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 may look the same regardless of where you play it, but the game is split between two versions built on entirely different technologies: Java and Bedrock. Minecraft Java was built during the ...

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

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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 ...

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

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

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

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

A representative of the ESA made this bold declaration during a debate on the Protect Our Games Act in the California State ...