If you've been waiting to dive into Cobblemon with full visual flair, 2026 is the year the modding community finally cracked ...

Minecraft can look stunning without sacrificing performance if you combine the right shaders, settings, and hardware tweaks. Using optimized shader engines, adjusting in-game options, and enabling ...

Learn about the Minecraft 26.2 Snapshot 5 that adds the Sulfur Cube explosive archetype along with erupting geysers inside ...

The Minecraft Chaos Cubed update has just landed on the Java side of the sandbox game, and I'm already eager to see what the wealth of inventive Minecraft creators and modders can do with its ...

Photon is one of the best Minecraft 26.1 shaders, particularly because of how it renders the sky, sun, moon, and clouds. It delivers a complete visual overhaul of the sky, lighting, and water graphics ...

NVIDIA has introduced a new beta feature called Auto Shader Compilation, or ASC, through the latest NVIDIA App update, and it targets a familiar pain point in modern PC gaming: long initial loading ...

The Minecraft 26.1 update for Java Edition is out now. The much-awaited Tiny Takeover game drop introduces overhauled baby mobs, golden dandelions, and more. Additionally, it addresses persistent ...

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 ...

Minecraft might be a blocky sandbox game, but it hasn’t stopped players from showing off their creativity. The community has always come up with modded features that make the pixelated world feel a ...

There have been reports by some PC gamers, of the issue whereby they can successfully launch the Minecraft game on their Windows 11 or Windows 10 computer, but as soon as they try to join a Minecraft ...

In context: Shader compilation has long been one of PC gaming's biggest headaches. It's the invisible process behind the stunning graphics and effects that make modern games shine, but it often comes ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...