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Mojang just revealed the Minecraft Movie build challenge as part of the promotions for the upcoming sequel to the massively popular film. The developers shared the exciting community challenge during ...

The first Minecraft 26.2 pre-release is here for Java Edition, but there's some bad news if you've been taking advantage of the sandbox game's new peer-to-peer multiplayer, which was implemented in a ...

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