If you used a Windows PC through the 2000s or 2010s, Java probably became one of those pieces of software you recognized long before you understood why it was there. Games asked for it, work programs ...

Alright, let’s start Minecraft!”You thought that and opened the Minecraft Launcher, but the first things you saw were “Java ...

Titled Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition for PC, the newly merged version “will become the standard and only offering of vanilla Minecraft on Windows PC,” according to Mojang’s announcement. While the ...

Mojang said late Wednesday that the legacy, PC-centric Java version of Minecraft will now require a Microsoft account, a decision Microsoft says it’s making for security reasons and to ensure future ...

Minecraft has come to Xbox Game Pass for PC, with both the Bedrock and Java editions of the sandbox game now available for subscribers running Windows 10 or 11. This not only means those playing on PC ...

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 Remnants, a series of structures that house both ...

The Minecraft 26.3 update for Java Edition is out now, introducing the Wilderness Bound game drop. The game drop features Dappled Forest, Abandoned Camps, craftable cushions for sitting, wool and ...

To be clear, the Java Edition and Bedrock Edition are not being merged into one game. Java, the one on PC that gets Snapshots for players to test out ahead of real updates, is different from Bedrock, ...