Minecraft's Caves & Cliffs update (1.18) made the game prettier but impacted Java edition's performance. Many players use Optifine or Sodium to play; should optimization be in the base game? Goodyear, ...

Minecraft comes in two versions for the PC. There's the original version, which is a Java application that uses OpenGL for its graphics API and is notoriously inefficient. Then there's the Bedrock ...

Pam Ferdinand is a news and reviews writer/editor at GameRant. She started out doing QA in game development, moved on to game localization and project management, and later began writing news, guides, ...