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.

The Minecraft Dappled Forest biome is now live in the new Bedrock preview and Java snapshot, along with the mysterious ...

The Chaos Cubed update is finally here in Minecraft Java Edition 26.2, and it adds the Sulfur Caves biome, the Sulfur Cube ...

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 ...

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Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...

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 ...