Since its release in 2011, Minecraft has captured the hearts and minds of today’s youth. With the recent release of MinecraftEDU school version, this popular game is rapidly becoming the most ...

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The Heeler family is heading to Minecraft, and yes, your preschooler will want to play immediately.

Nothing like having to ask for help on something you would have been able to figure out in the past We loaded Minecraft on a hilariously old iPad last year to let them explore in creative mode. Then ...

You can tell that Cesar Tron-Lozai is comfortable with kids. He starts off a Java training session for scores of Minecraft enthusiasts—which, given the virtual world’s player demographic, tends to be ...

The popular build-and-survive video game Minecraft could very well be the most surprising tech success of this decade. Created in 2009 by programmer Markus "Notch" Persson, expanded by a small team, ...