The story of Minecraft is one of the saddest in gaming history

Notch never followed up his miracle creation. Neither did Tetris’ Alexey Pajitnov. How come only one of them could live with ...
The Verge

Valve says it still plans to ship the Steam Machine in 2026

Valve has updated a blog post to say that it is shipping the Steam Machine, Steam Frame, and Steam Controller in 2026. Valve has updated a blog post to say that it is shipping the Steam Machine, Steam ...
TWCN Tech News

Headphones not working with Virtual Machine

If headphones are not working in a virtual machine on Windows 11/10, here is how to troubleshoot the issue. This is a common guide that is applicable to Hyper-V, VirtualBox, and VMware Player. Why are ...
The Conversation

How the Iran war could create a ‘fertiliser shock’ – an often ignored global risk to food prices and farming

Nima Shokri is affiliated with Hamburg University of Technology. Salome M. S. Shokri-Kuehni does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would ...
TechSpot

Minecraft Java Edition is finally moving from OpenGL to multi-threaded Vulkan

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 ...
Game Rant

Minecraft Gives Update on Vibrant Visuals for Java Edition

James Ratcliff joined GameRant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is a ...
MediaPost

Not In Our Back Yard: Publishers Block Wayback Machine

Content scraping is harming the information business in ways that could not have been foreseen. Case in point: At least three major news organizations are blocking access to their content by the ...
Deadline.com

Four Video Games That Could Become The Next Big TV Or Movie Franchise

After the runaway success of The Last of Us and A Minecraft Movie, the studios have been aggressive with video game IP, but there is plenty more out there. British research firm Ampere Analysis has ...
Engadget

Half-Life 3 is rumored to be a Steam Machine launch title and could arrive in spring 2026

Half-Life fans are nothing if not patient. For the diehard fans out there, the latest test of patience comes from Insider Gaming Weekly's podcast, which claimed that the third installment in the ...
PC Gamer

Cool Shirtz had one goal and one goal only when it came to creating the Minecraft collaboration: To design clothes people can wear 'not just to represent the game, but to ...

Gaming Industry CEO of Kitfox Games reckons hundreds of hours playing Civilization could be the secret to the Dwarf Fortress publisher's success: 'Maybe Kitfox wouldn't be as successful if I didn't ...
HotHardware

Valve’s New Steam Machine Could Be Priced Like A PC, Not A Console

In a recent interview, Valve warned that the upcoming Steam Machine won't be priced like a game console. It's not clear what that means just yet, but speculation concerning the Steam Machine's pricing ...