Minecraft is no longer (officially) available on virtual and mixed reality platforms. The change was confirmed in today's patch notes for the game's Bedrock edition following an announcement from ...

Microsoft today unveiled a new augmented reality Minecraft game for smartphones that aims to advance the genre long associated with Pokémon Go with increased interactivity and multiplayer action. The ...

For the last eighteen months, Sax Persson has been sitting on the biggest secret in the gaming industry. On the fourth floor of a drab, red-brick office block in the centre of Redmond, Washington ...

Augmented reality (AR) technology has come a long way since Pokémon Go launched in 2016, and now one of the biggest games of the last decade is joining the ranks. Microsoft has announced Minecraft ...

One began as a passion project and turned into a svelte, goofy and surprisingly slick little action game. Another started as a tech experiment and now has ambitions on conquering the world, one ...

It won’t be long before the trees on your street are pixelated and little pigs and other animals are rampaging through neighborhoods — as long as you’re looking through the lens of a smartphone.

Minecraft Earth will be released in a "closed beta" this summer Tim McGovern is the Executive Editor of PEOPLE's App. He left PEOPLE in 2021 before returning in 2025. Minecraft builders from all over ...

Microsoft today announced "Minecraft Earth," a new game coming to iOS and Android in beta this summer that uses augmented reality to place virtual Minecraft blocks and characters into the real world.

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing you could find items you built in Minecraft out in the real world, your dreams just came true. What does it do? Uses GPS and augmented reality to let you drop ...

Building forts and objects in "Minecraft" may be fun, but sharing them with non-player friends can be difficult. A new augmented-reality iOS app lets you bring your blocky little creations to the real ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter when she was five years old. Since then, she ...