Minecraft Bedrock 26.40.20 beta and preview have officially been released, giving you a glimpse at all the upcoming features that will arrive as part of the game’s future stable releases. It brings ...

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Minecraft Bedrock 26.30.28 beta and preview has arrived, and it was released on May 12, 2026. The same has ended up introducing fixes to several bugs and glitches ...

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 ...

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 ...

Minecraft is a phenomenon that continues to take the world by storm even 12 years after its full release. Selling over 238,000,000 copies worldwide, the game is just as captivating an experience now ...

You may recall that just a couple of days ago we posted about Intel's new Arc Graphics Precompiled Shader Distribution. This is an implementation of Microsoft's ...

Minecraft has been a raging success since Mojang released it in 2011. And its continued popularity means that many folks who’ve heard great things about it may really want to try out this sandbox ...

"Compiling shaders" ruined BL4 for me because it happens as you transition to another section of the map, and it has become a regular annoyance in other games. The deck is a singular piece of hardware ...

Modern gamers are used to loading up a new game for the first time and being forced to wait multiple minutes while a “compiling shaders” step whirs away, optimizing advanced 3D effects for their ...

Looking ahead: The first official visual upgrade in Minecraft's 16-year history was released last June for Bedrock Edition players. However, the original Java version has a long road ahead of it ...