In March, Microsoft revealed that it was using the open-world game Minecraft to train AI agents to learn how to do things like climbing a hill. The company also promised to make it available to the ...

SAN FRANCISCO–Microsoft announced today that it’s bringing support for creating Minecraft mods written in Java inside its Visual Studio development environment. Minecraft’s modding tools allow ...

Today, Microsoft-owned game developer Mojang AB announced the launch of Minecraft: Education Edition, a new version of Minecraft for schools that is based on the popular MinecraftEdu mod. “Over the ...

Microsoft is continuing its mission to find educational uses for Minecraft with the news that it has acquired MinecraftEdu, a company that makes a modified version of Minecraft specifically for the ...

For years, the phenomenally popular world-building game Minecraft has quietly been making inroads into schools — teachers have been using it informally to teach nearly every subject, mostly through ...

Dalton Cooper is the Managing Editor of Game Rant. Dalton has been writing about video games professionally since 2011. Having written thousands of game reviews and articles over the course of his ...

Sim Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year MMO EVE Online players destroyed ...

The Internet is dark and full of terrors (Game of Thrones reference, we had to). That, and idiotic online challenges. One of them is the “Momo Suicide Challenge” and now it has infected the world of ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has announced plans to launch a special release of the company's popular block building ...

Microsoft announced it will be releasing an educational version of Minecraft, the popular online sandbox building game the company acquired in 2014(Opens in a new window). Minecraft: Education Edition ...

High above the forest floor, three figures run stiffly across a rope bridge. The bridge is long and appears to sag under its own weight, but it doesn't buckle or break. Instead, it carries its ...

I attended Minecon 2015 last week in London, which, according to The Guinness Book of World's Records, was the largest gathering for any single game. Over 10,000 Minecraft players, YouTubers, ...