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When Minecraft Dungeons finished its development cycle in late 2022, it felt like a bittersweet moment. The dungeon crawler was a success for Mojang Studios, showing that Minecraft could successfully ...

Vibrant Visuals is Minecraft‘s biggest visual graphics update to date, and it’ll come enabled as the default graphics setting in the native Switch 2 version! Released in June 2025 alongside our “Chase ...

Verity is a mysterious horror Minecraft mod that adds an all-knowing AI-like entity to the game. The entity is initially a simple smiley ball that can talk and be kept as an item in the inventory. As ...

A little game called Minecraft, you might have heard of it, is getting a native release on Switch 2 later this year. You'll be able to enjoy the new(ish) 'vibrant visuals' display with enhanced ...

In addition, the game will have enhanced lighting and shadow effects, just to make things look extra fancy. As a nice bonus, if you have a world you're playing on the Nintendo Switch version of ...

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Minecraft Dungeons II will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, Switch 2, Switch, and PC via Steam and Microsoft Store on September 29 for $29.99, publisher Xbox Game Studios and developers Mojang ...

There aren’t many certainties in this world besides death, taxes, and Minecraft. And Minecraft is about to get even bigger later this year, with a much-anticipated follow-up. Like its direct ...

We now have a launch date for Minecraft Dungeons 2, and I couldn't be happier to hear it. The first rather snuck up on me, with a relatively slow start that took a while to ramp up to the pace of the ...