If you’re a Minecraft player who wants to know what’s what regarding future updates prior to their releases, you’ll soon have a new way to keep track of that stuff and actually go hands-on with it, ...

You may have seen Minecraft used to teach programming or even mods that allow some in-game programming, but writing BASIC code inside Minecraft? That's virtually unheard of... until now. SethBling has ...

Back in January, Microsoft announced it had acquired MinecraftEdu, a version of the game designed specifically for schools. The Redmond company has now confirmed that the Beta version of Minecraft: ...

Microsoft's highly popular game can help children learn everything from programming, science and math to art, languages and history. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...