Most gamers play Minecraft on their phones and tablets. And now, you have a chance to play Classic Minecraft on the screens of your computers.

Humans usually take minutes to learn how to find diamonds in the game, but AI agents struggled.

Minecraft continues to dominate YouTube charts after 11 years.

While the Wii U has its fair share of problems that have resulted in relatively sluggish sales, it’s fairly easy to see it does deserve the “family friendly” crown of the trio of next generation consoles with great local multiplayer games for all ages.

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Stronghold Finder is a Minecraft app to find the coordinates of strongholds based on the seed of your world.

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Simon proudly shows off his Minecraft single player world with the Mo' Creatures mod..And once he discovers bunnies,things go from bad to worse. Enjoy!

Denmark has been totally recreated in sandbox game Minecraft, making it the first country able to be explored in the game.

So, the Danish government sanctioned the creation of a replica version of their country within "Minecraft" to use as a progressive teaching tool for schoolchildren, educating them about Denmark's geography...

A funny little movie based on the Minecraft game. It's replete with slapstick and quirky characters. Enjoy.

This week the kids at Camp Combe YMCA will have the chance to explore the great outdoors in the beautiful wooded hills of upstate New York. Or at least they will, if they have any time left after spending a week and a half inside the world of Minecraft.

Calculations to determine how long it would take to mine a Minecraft world vs. Earth. This video omits certain operations for the sake of brevity. If you are curious as to how a given variable was attained, turn on annotations and mouse over the red square in the corner.

It’s almost inevitable: I encounter Minecraft somewhere online—it’s easy to do, because there’s a lot of Minecraft out there—and I end up convinced I’m doing the wrong thing with my life. Let me explain.

The project to re-create Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, shot-for-shot, within Minecraft is nearing completion. Its creator says the flick will be ready in 2015, and released this teaser trailer to show his work.

The worldwide domination of Markus Persson's building-blocks game is a triumph for the power of human imagination, writes John Naughton

Microsoft Corp is in serious discussions to buy Mojang AB, the Swedish company behind the popular "Minecraft" video game, The Wall Street Journal said.

By negotiating to sell his gaming startup to Microsoft Corp., Minecraft creator Markus Persson is growing closer to a company he once publicly lambasted -- and has a chance of becoming a billionaire at the age of 35.

Buying a game company is like buying an aging baseball player. You’ll need a miracle to get another hit. And while they might have plenty of fans, they probably aren’t making a lot of new ones. Mojang hit a grand slam home run with Minecraft, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft should pay $2.5 billion for it, as it’s reportedly going to announce this week.

In Minecraft, Microsoft is taking control of a game that has become a cultural phenomenon. Markus Persson, though, is bidding adieu.