ESA labeled private Minecraft and Call of Duty servers piracy in California's AB 1921 hearing, misleading lawmakers on consumer game ownership rights.

California's Protect Our Games Act, which would have required publishers to provide remedies when ending support for paid ...

Minecraft creator, Markus 'Notch' Persson, has spoken out against the Electronic Software Association for claiming that private servers are "illegal." ...

The ESA called community-run Minecraft servers "illegal" during a California hearing, sparking fresh debate over game ...

Need to install Java on your Mac to run a particular application? While most Mac users will never need Java, there are ...

TwitchCon Rotterdam 2026 opened Saturday at Rotterdam Ahoy for its final run in the Netherlands, with Twitch using the European convention's keynote to announce a raft of platform upgrades — including ...

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 ...

The overall adoption and implementation of Wayland — intended as a replacement for the decades-old X11 windowing system — in the Linux world has been full of fits and starts. But perhaps the most ...

Minecraft Java finally has a multiplayer peer-to-peer feature, allowing you to easily play with your friends on your single-player worlds. This option was in Bedrock Edition for several years, and has ...

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 ...

To add friends in Minecraft Java Edition, you first need to download Minecraft 26.2 snapshot 7, since this feature first dropped in that snapshot. If you are reading this at a later date, the feature ...