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Minecraft News
The latest news and rumors about Minecraft for today and 2026. Here you will find all the news about Minecraft updates, learn the release date for PC, when the game will be available on other platforms, and other announcements. We will also write about the system requirements of Minecraft for PC, about pirate cracks, and the appearance of the game on torrents, where it can be downloaded for free.
Real-Life Minecraft: Woman Builds a Mine Under Her House
A creator known as Kala has shared a new update on her massive project, which the internet has dubbed "Minecraft in real life." She has been working on this ambitious undertaking for three years now.
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April 19, 2026
“Nothing is off the table”: Mojang talks about Minecraft’s future and an update with cute creatures and their babies
Minecraft has received another update — Tiny Takeover, in which the developers completely reworked all baby mobs in the game. None were left out: from chicks and kittens to zombies and villagers. At the same time, Mojang product manager Anna Lundgren spoke to GameSpot about the philosophy behind updates and hinted at some unexpected plans.
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March 27, 2026
Are the old-school fans here? Most Final Fantasy fans in the U.S. are over 35
According to analytics firm Circana, 62% of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth players in the U.S. are over 35, and if you include everyone aged 30 and up, that share rises to 77%. It is yet another sign that gamers are “getting older.”
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March 24, 2026
The rebirth of a legend? 23 years later, a remake of the game about controlling an army of ghosts was released
The developers of Ghost Master: Resurrection, a remake of the 2003 game, have announced the release of the project. An updated version of the iconic strategy is already available on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch.
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March 23, 2026
Minecraft in Real Life? World’s First Minecraft Theme Park Coming to the UK
During the Minecraft LIVE broadcast, Mojang Studios announced a partnership with Merlin Entertainments to create the world’s first-ever dedicated Minecraft theme park zone.
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March 22, 2026
Analytics: Roblox and Minecraft audiences aren’t interested in AAA games.
According to a new large-scale study of the gaming industry, Roblox and Minecraft audiences are becoming less and less interested in traditional AAA blockbusters. If this trend continues, the future of video games may lie not in expensive single-player hits, but in free-to-play live-service games and viral formats.
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March 16, 2026
Minecraft appeared on Steam, but there is a nuance. Users have found a port of the leaked PS3 version of the game
Steam users noticed a game on the site that suspiciously resembles old versions of Minecraft. Gamers are confident that the project, called Kogama, is a PC port created based on leaked versions of the game for previous generations of consoles.
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March 10, 2026
CoD Strikes Back? Black Ops 7 Tops January — But Battlefield 6 Wins All of 2025 for the First Time in 17 Years
Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 reclaimed the top spot in U.S. sales charts in January 2026, bouncing back after its historic full-year defeat to Battlefield 6 in 2025. The data was published by analytics firm Circana on February 20.
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February 22, 2026
The graphics will get better, but you won't envy the modders. Minecraft developers are switching to a new graphics engine
Minecraft: Java Edition is switching to the new Vulkan graphics engine. In addition to improved performance and new graphics capabilities, this will create problems for mod authors.
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February 19, 2026
Minecraft Makes a Surprise Leap to Sega Saturn — Unofficial Port of the Iconic Game Announced for the 32-Bit Console
An enthusiast known as Frogbull has unveiled an unofficial version of Minecraft for the Sega Saturn, the classic 32-bit console from the '90s. The project is a homebrew creation and is currently available to a limited group of users, but the developer plans to release a public build soon.
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February 12, 2026
Microsoft Takes Down an Indie Game From Steam for Resembling Minecraft — While Hytale Thrives
Microsoft has filed a copyright complaint against the indie game Allumeria, leading Valve to remove it from Steam. The voxel sandbox from developer Unomelon was preparing to appear at Steam Next Fest in January, but just two weeks after its announcement, the game vanished from the store. The stated reason: alleged copyright infringement of Minecraft.
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February 11, 2026
Minecraft Bedrock Update 1.21.132 Patch Fixes Xbox Data Loss, Addon Issues, and Realm Freezes
Mojang has released a hotfix for Minecraft Bedrock version 1.21.132, addressing a number of issues discovered after the latest update. The patch will gradually roll out on all platforms, including PC and consoles.
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February 9, 2026
“The Best Games Work Like Toys”: Fallout Co-Creator on Why Skyrim and Minecraft Don’t Need Goals
Fallout co-creator Tim Cain believes that modern games often lack “toy-like” qualities — freedom, aimless interaction, and the feeling that you can simply mess around in a world instead of constantly completing objectives. In a new video on his YouTube channel, he explained how he sees a fundamental difference between games and toys, and why the best projects often exist somewhere in between.
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February 3, 2026
Minecraft will add baby water mobs and an item to stop them from growing up
Water mob cubs and a golden dandelion will be added to Minecraft, which will make the animals forever young. This was told by the developers of the game.
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January 28, 2026
“I’d Rather Just Play Minecraft”: Mojang Lead Weighs In on Hytale — Developers Agree the Game Still Has Room to Grow
Jens Bergensten, creative director of Minecraft, has shared his first impressions of Hytale — concluding that, at its current stage, the game feels too close to Minecraft. That assessment was publicly echoed by Hytale’s lead developer and head of Hypixel Studios, Simon Collins-Laflamme.
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January 23, 2026
A Minecraft Movie 2 Set to Begin Filming This April
Production on the fantasy sequel A Minecraft Movie 2 is slated to begin in late April 2026. The news was shared by Jason Momoa during a recent appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The actor noted that he has already read the script and fully approves of the direction the sequel is taking.
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January 17, 2026
Gamers Spend Five Years Recreating New York City in Minecraft—And the Results Are Stunning
A dedicated group of Minecraft players has spent the past five years painstakingly recreating New York City at a 1:1 scale, and the project is now finally complete. This isn’t a simplified version of the city—it’s an incredibly accurate replica, featuring real-world dimensions and a remarkable level of detail.
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January 16, 2026
2.8 million players logged into Hytale at the same time after the launch of early access
The RPG sandbox Hytale has started extremely successfully. A few hours after the game's launch, more than 2.8 million gamers were playing it.
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January 14, 2026
Minecraft has added baby animals — these are unique models, not just smaller adults
The next update will add baby animals to Minecraft. This will affect eight mobs, and we are talking about unique models and textures, and not just smaller copies of adults.
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January 8, 2026
New MrBeast video about Minecraft criticized for fraud by Russian hackers
The most popular blogger in the world, MrBeast, held a competition in Minecraft, in which 500 girls competed against 500 guys to get the grand prize of $50,000. It turned out that there were many men from Russia among the participants, who, according to other players, illegally joined the women's team and wrote sexist inscriptions.
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December 29, 2025
Minecraft Gets Stranger Things–Themed DLC
Mojang has also joined the worldwide hype around the final season of Stranger Things. To celebrate the conclusion of the popular Netflix series, a new DLC has been released for Minecraft, allowing players to immerse themselves in the world of Hawkins and interact with their favorite characters.
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December 27, 2025
Minecraft Adds SpongeBob's Underwater World in New DLC
The popular sandbox game Minecraft has received a major expansion, SpongeBob SquarePants Biomes, introducing the underwater world from the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants into the game.
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December 21, 2025
ARC Raiders, Battlefield 6, Anora, and Superman Top Google Search Trends in 2025
Google has released its lists of the most popular search queries of the year across games, movies, TV shows, and actors. Among video games, ARC Raiders and Battlefield 6 made it into the top searches. As for movies, users most frequently looked up information about Anora and Superman in 2025.
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December 4, 2025
Gamer Beat 'Minecraft' Using Cash Register Printer Instead of Monitor
Every day humanity moves further away from God. This time — thanks to YouTuber smillgames, who decided to beat Minecraft not on PC, not on a toaster, and not even on a refrigerator, but on a cash register printer, like the ones in restaurants that print receipts. The framerate, according to him, was like Oblivion on an old PC.
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November 28, 2025
Gamer Beat 'Minecraft' Using Cash Register Printer Instead of Monitor
Every day humanity moves further away from God. This time — thanks to YouTuber smillgames, who decided to beat Minecraft not on PC, not on a toaster, and not even on a refrigerator, but on a cash register printer, like the ones in restaurants that print receipts. The framerate, according to him, was like Oblivion on an old PC.
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November 28, 2025
'Hytale' Creators Are Assembling a Separate Team for Cozy Game Lovers — With Farming, Cooking, and Pets
After long development and "resurrection" of the project, the creators of Hytale from Hypixel studio announced the formation of a separate team that will handle the "cozy" part of the game — farming, cooking, building a home, and caring for animals.
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November 27, 2025
All Winners Announced for the Golden Joystick Awards 2025 — Game of the Year, Best Narrative, Studio of the Year, and More
The Golden Joystick Awards 2025 ceremony has wrapped, with players—not a jury—selecting the best games of the year across multiple categories. This year’s show was hosted by Maggie Robertson, best known for voicing Lady Dimitrescu in Resident Evil Village.
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November 20, 2025
Hytale Compared to Minecraft — Here’s How the Games Differ
Hypixel Studios has just released an extended gameplay video for their sandbox game Hytale, and the internet is already drawing comparisons to Minecraft—the clear inspiration behind the project.
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November 19, 2025
Minecraft Fan Builds a Colossal Mega-Bunker Over Six Years
On Reddit, user Internal-Ride9514 shared an astonishing project that took more than six years to complete — a massive underground bunker in Minecraft. The final creation turned into an enormous structure featuring a rocket launch silo, an office, underground tunnels, a reactor, and various other facilities.
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November 13, 2025
Xbox President Calls Exclusives “A Relic of the Past”: Most Players Will Still Play Call of Duty, Minecraft, and Fortnite
Xbox president Sarah Bond has stated that the era of platform-exclusive games is coming to an end. In an interview with Mashable, she explained that the world’s biggest hits already exist far beyond platform boundaries.
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October 23, 2025
PC Gamer Reveals Updated Top 100 Best PC Games — The Witcher 3 Only Lands in Fourth Place
The PC Gamer team has unveiled its annual Top 100 Best PC Games list, featuring both recent releases and timeless classics. This year, editors evaluated games based on three main criteria: quality, significance, and uniqueness.
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October 20, 2025
Xbox Insider Denies Rumors About Generative AI Use in the Next Halo
According to well-known insider Jez Corden, Microsoft is not using generative artificial intelligence in the development of the next Halo game. He clarified that Xbox Game Studios does not require its teams to implement AI tools for creating game content or visuals — the technology may only be used internally, for tasks such as emails or customer support.
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October 20, 2025
2XKO, a New Free Fighting Game Set in the League of Legends Universe, Launches on PC in Early Access
2XKO, a free-to-play tag-team fighting game from Riot Games set in the League of Legends universe, has launched on PC in early access. The game focuses on 2-on-2 battles, where players control a pair of champions and can combine their abilities in dynamic combos.
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October 7, 2025
Minecraft Streamer Reaches the Far Lands After 14-Year Journey
After more than 14 years of walking in Minecraft, streamer kurtjmac has finally reached the legendary Far Lands. Fans of the sandbox gave this name to the glitched terrain that appears at the outer limits of the procedurally generated world.
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October 6, 2025
Minecraft Developers Reveal New Weapon and Three New Mobs in the Mounts of Mayhem Update
As part of the annual Minecraft Live presentation, Mojang showcased content from the major Mounts of Mayhem update, set to release at the end of 2025.
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September 27, 2025