Ahead of the release of Minecraft on the Switch 2 later this year, Mojang has this week released the new update Chaos Cubed.

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. By default, you’re given a basic skin for your character in ...

Minecraft’s new Crafter Cape has already become a resale target, with preorder code listings appearing on eBay for hundreds of dollars before TwitchCon Rotterdam even begins. Mojang revealed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani admits that he’s not a gamer. (He has, however, dabbled in Sim City and FIFA, and thrown a Mario Kart reference out there while discussing policy.) Today, though, he ...

As tools like Claude Code get better, more and more developers are happy to hand off coding tasks to them. The way software gets built has changed for good. The vibes were strong at Code with Claude, ...

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 Java’s Friends List brings easier invites, peer-to-peer worlds, and privacy choices. Here is why this small feature could change co op play.

Minecraft Java Edition is finally getting a native Friends List and peer-to-peer multiplayer, letting players join each other’s worlds without setting up a server, Realms, or relying on third-party ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. How do you play with your friends in Minecraft? It all depends which ...