Michael Ingram is a Senior Contributor from the United States of America. Michael has been writing for GameRant since 2021, writing both analytically and fiction for years beforehand. Michael is a ...

When you want to pause Minecraft Java Edition, you usually press escape, which takes you to the standard pause menu with buttons to get into settings, resume the game, save and exit, etc. While this ...

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Minecraft is a widely popular sandbox game that encourages creativity, problem-solving, and teamwork. Due to its immense popularity, many players want to host their own servers, allowing them to ...

The newest Java pre-release of Minecraft contains far fewer over-the-top features but more fixes that will affect gameplay for players. Mojang has released a new pre-release (Pre-Release 1) for the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly all of Lake Erie has frozen over from this winter’s plunging Arctic outbreaks. But on Sunday, a massive, roughly 80-mile-long crack formed on this colossal sheet of ice, and satellite images ...

Minecraft is entering a new era in 2026. With the launch of Minecraft Java 26.1, Mojang is not just releasing another content patch — it’s introducing a new yearly versioning system and laying down ...