One of the things that made the biggest impact on him was seeing representations of the civil rights protests led by Congressman John Lewis, when he and a handful of others faced hundreds of police ...

Mojang Studios has announced the first lesson in Minecraft's "Good Trouble: Social Justice Movements Around the World" learning series. The first episode will debut next Thursday, November 5th, ...

This month marks the fifth anniversary of the Minecraft Marketplace, the official avenue to monetize user-generated content in the hit game. In the years since its launch, the Marketplace has seen ...

Microsoft's latest Hour of Code tutorial is providing educators with resources to teach their students the basics of coding and how to prevent forest fires using Minecraft. The lesson is inspired by ...

The free content which will be available via both the in-game Minecraft Marketplace and Minecraft: Education Edition "is designed to help educators explore crucial topics and ideas about social ...

With Black History Month underway, Mojang has announced the newest addition to Minecraft’s educational content offerings. The “Lessons in Good Trouble” DLC is all about the Civil Rights movement, both ...

Minecraft has been a tool in education for years. Google and MinecraftEdu teamed up to teach quantum physics through qCraft, and in March the game was made available to every secondary school in ...

One of the bestselling video games of all time has no guns and no blood. It doesn't keep score. And the graphics make no attempt to look lifelike. It's called Minecraft, and since its debut in 2009, ...

Minecraft, which innocently started out as a vast open-world block-based game, is probably the closest thing to crack cocaine for kids. Its popularity with the grade school set is likely what helped ...

In “A Minecraft Movie,” which opens in theaters April 4, four misfits transported to the video game’s cubic world must harvest materials to craft their way back home and protect themselves from ...