GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. During Minecraft Live in 2025, Mojang announced the arrival of the ...

Quick tutorial I made on how to increase your brightness in Minecraft Java edition without mods or shaders.

To enjoy Minecraft 26.2 with maximum graphics fidelity, you can install shaders on it. These are small graphical modifications made by the community that drastically change how the game looks and ...

Minecraft may look the same regardless of where you play it, but the game is split between two versions built on entirely ...

AMD’s Advanced Shader Delivery (ASD) technology dramatically reduces game shader loading times by over 95% in supported titles like Forza Horizon 6. PCWorld reports that ASD requires an AMD RDNA GPU, ...

Shine is a relatively new Minecraft mod that was made in 2026. Though it does not feature volumetric lighting, fog, directional shadows, reflections, etc., it can still feel like shaders. The mod ...

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 ...

Mojang is currently working on the next major Minecraft content update, Chaos Cubed, and that means public testing is ongoing via the snapshot system. The latest update to the Minecraft Java Edition ...

Java has always been criticized for being too verbose. While that criticism is largely unfounded, language architects and community enthusiasts have always strived to make the language simpler and ...

After more than 16 years, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally moving away from the aging OpenGL graphics system and upgrading to Vulkan, a modern multi-threaded rendering API. The change, announced by ...