When you fire up Minecraft's latest snapshot, you'll be treated to a new cubemap gently revolving behind the sandbox game's main menu. It's a big, wide open scene from the upcoming Caves and Cliffs: ...

Minecraft ticks can basically be explained as one cycle of the game's algorithm. Most computer games and software run in loops, and Minecraft has a set speed for how fast the loop will run. These ...

Minecraft is a game about exploring procedure-generated worlds. Each world is generated from a particular “seed” value, and sharing this seed value allows others to generate the same world in their ...

In this Minecraft video, every item I craft turns out to be completely random. The session follows the surprises that come ...

What happens when every block in Minecraft drops random items—and those drops are multiplied to ridiculous levels? In this challenge, a simple wooden pickaxe could give me 1,000 lighters, and breaking ...

Ramey's passion for videos games blossomed at the age of 8, with medieval fantasy games such as Runescape and Skyrim. What inspired him to become a writer however, was those games' ability to allow ...