The ESA may be walking back statements they made in California where they called all private and community servers illegal ...

The ESA has made the head-scratching claim that private Minecraft servers are "illegal" and considered a form of "piracy" in ...

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In a recent legal hearing, a representative of the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) made the claim that community servers such as those found in Minecraft and Call of Duty are “illegal.” The ...

Is Minecraft down today, June 29, 2026? What is the service status of Minecraft servers? Here are DownDetector results and more.

Minecrafter players are running into some problems Monday morning. According to Downdetector, the sandbox video game platform was dealing with problems Monday morning with more than 800 reports of ...

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 ...

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After 15 long years of waiting, multiplayer finally received a much-needed upgrade for the Java Edition of Minecraft. Thanks to the handy friends list feature, playing with friends is finally easy to ...

Minecraft Java Edition finally debuts a built-in Friends list feature. Players can invite friends to join their world without servers or Realms. This feature works similarly to the Bedrock Edition ...

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Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...