You can put Minecraft's gorgeous new biome and building blocks to the test right now

The Minecraft Dappled Forest biome is now live in the new Bedrock preview and Java snapshot, along with the mysterious ...
Rock Paper Shotgun

League of Legends' Vanguard anti-cheat finally gets the option to only run when you fire up a game, as Riot roll out "on-demand sessions" for "sufficiently secured" PCs

League of Legends and Valorant developers Riot Games have added an optional "on demand" mode to their Vanguard anti-cheat software. With this new mode enabled, Vanguard will only run when you fire up ...
PCQuest

Minecraft just rolled back a fix and players will want to know why

Explore Minecraft 26.2 Pre-Release 3 with Sulfur Cube fixes, Vulkan crash patches, smoother menus, multiplayer cleanup, and Attribute Swapping rollback now.
HotHardware

Bypass Microsoft’s Queue: How to Force-Enable New Windows 11 Performance Boost

Let’s face it, despite years of updates and patches, Windows 11 can still feel a bit sluggish. Even on high-end hardware, triggering basic OS interface elements like the Start menu, Search bar, or ...
PCGamesN

Minecraft puts its Java multiplayer test on hold: "The experience wasn't what we wanted"

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 ...
destructoid

How to add friends in Minecraft Java Edition

After 15 long years of waiting, multiplayer finally received a much-needed upgrade for the Java Edition of Minecraft. Thanks to the handy friends list feature, playing with friends is finally easy to ...
Dexerto

Minecraft Java finally gets easy multiplayer after 15 years with massive Friends List update

Minecraft Java Edition is finally getting a native Friends List and peer-to-peer multiplayer, letting players join each other’s worlds without setting up a server, Realms, or relying on third-party ...
GameSpot

Minecraft Multiplayer – How To Play With Friends

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. How do you play with your friends in Minecraft? It all depends which ...
techworm.net

Minecraft: Java Edition To Replace OpenGL With Vulkan

After more than 16 years, Minecraft: Java Edition is finally moving away from the aging OpenGL graphics system and upgrading to Vulkan, a modern multi-threaded rendering API. The change, announced by ...
TechSpot

Minecraft Java Edition is finally moving from OpenGL to multi-threaded Vulkan

Looking ahead: The first official visual upgrade in Minecraft's 16-year history was released last June for Bedrock Edition players. However, the original Java version has a long road ahead of it ...
GM Authority

Here’s How To Activate A GM Digital Key

General Motors is rolling out a new convenience feature called Digital Key, allowing drivers to use a compatible smartphone or smartwatch in place of a traditional key fob. The system enables locking, ...
GitHub

A tool to dump NVIDIA Vendor-Specific OpenGL Assembly

java -jar nvasm-dump.jar ./nvasm .../.minecraft/patched_shaders/* Dumping all composite shaders java -jar nvasm-dump.jar ./nvasm .../.minecraft/patched_shaders ...