SAN FRANCISCO–Microsoft announced today that it’s bringing support for creating Minecraft mods written in Java inside its Visual Studio development environment. Minecraft’s modding tools allow ...

For years, the phenomenally popular world-building game Minecraft has quietly been making inroads into schools — teachers have been using it informally to teach nearly every subject, mostly through ...

In March, Microsoft revealed that it was using the open-world game Minecraft to train AI agents to learn how to do things like climbing a hill. The company also promised to make it available to the ...

Microsoft is continuing its mission to find educational uses for Minecraft with the news that it has acquired MinecraftEdu, a company that makes a modified version of Minecraft specifically for the ...

Today, Microsoft-owned game developer Mojang AB announced the launch of Minecraft: Education Edition, a new version of Minecraft for schools that is based on the popular MinecraftEdu mod. “Over the ...

Minecraft‘s underground modding scene is about to step into the light. Later this spring, the Windows 10 and mobile versions of Minecraft will get an official storefront for user-made skins, textures, ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of GameRant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

Vivecraft, with an HTC Vive and motion controllers and roomscale to walk around a bit in, is currently a killer app for VR. It works so well and the dev is making almost weekly major updates to the UI ...

High above the forest floor, three figures run stiffly across a rope bridge. The bridge is long and appears to sag under its own weight, but it doesn't buckle or break. Instead, it carries its ...

The Internet is dark and full of terrors (Game of Thrones reference, we had to). That, and idiotic online challenges. One of them is the “Momo Suicide Challenge” and now it has infected the world of ...