In the new minecraft update, you will be able to add in data packs that will allow you to add new crafting recipes for vanilla minecraft. The new snapshot also comes with new blocks and new items as ...

The popular build-and-survive video game Minecraft could very well be the most surprising tech success of this decade. Created in 2009 by programmer Markus "Notch" Persson, expanded by a small team, ...

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This article emerges from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies and their effects on policy and society. On ...

This article originally appeared in issue 246 of PC Gamer UK. Read our feature on the making of Minecraft here. It's hard to imagine how Minecraft could become any bigger than it already is, or how ...

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