


Best Minecraft shaders 1.16 - the best shader packs to use with Optifine 1.16.1

That's right, you can already use shaders with 1.16.1!

Best Minecraft seeds 1.16.1 and 1.15.2



Best Minecraft servers 1.16.1 - Survival, Skyblock, Factions, and more

From survival to skyblock, from minigames to Hunger Games, our best Minecraft servers list has something for you


8 months ago

Feature: Let's all take care of each other




9 months ago

Feature: And those magnets, eh?

When does technology become magic in games?

The usually remote and mysterious Nate visited the RPS treehouse on Monday, and almost immediately work ground to a halt. Why? Because Nate challenged us with a question: what bits of modern technology could a person from the past figure out the workings of, just by observing and having a good think for a while? This immediately led to the counter-question "when and where in…

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Feature: All that glitters is gold

The RPS minecraft server has devolved into a hellish Shrek larp


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10 months ago

Feature: Why every survival game needs wheat

Game DNA: Making yourself a home

I was homeless when I discovered Minecraft -- not homeless in the street-sleeping sense, thankfully. Only in the sofa-surfing sense. I had a bed, even. The creaking cabin bed of two friends who took pity on me and let me crash for a few months in their house, while I sullied my fingertips with sambuca in a dank Yorkshire nightclub for part-time pound coins. My…


11 months ago

Feature: Not all dogs go to heaven

Hounded Out: The adventures of a Minecraft hermit, finale

Previously on Hounded Out: I have brought food, and have made peace with the townies. But after spending the night in the cursed place, my precious dog, Goat, has been taken to Hell.I'd never been to Hell. It seems obvious, right? I never go to hell because of course I don't. Why would I want to? Spare me your "endgame" nonsense. My endgame is mapping…

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12 months ago

Feature: Tillage the village

Hounded Out: The adventures of a Minecraft hermit, part three

Previously on Hounded Out: My dogs and I narrowly survive a heroic rescue of the townies in their sinister underground excavation. Our generosity rebuffed, we head North, seeking peace in the wilderness.Travelling with three easily distracted dogs makes it difficult to get lost, as you retread your path every few minutes to retrieve them. This has probably saved me from getting lost for months, although…

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1 year ago

Feature: Life's a birch

Hounded Out: The adventures of a Minecraft hermit, part one


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Feature: Bottled ants

Game DNA: growing order from chaos

The summer of 1991 was all about ants. I was seven years old, and I spent the entire school holiday camped in the garden, gently catching winged queens and housing them in shitty coke bottle formicariums. There I would watch them lay eggs and create workers, who would dig tunnels, search about the place, and scurry in lines with grains of food in their jaws.…

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Feature: Mince raft

Have You Played… Minecraft?

At first, I couldn’t believe nobody had written a ‘Have You Played’ about Minecraft, given the sheer mass with which it looms over the last decade of game history. But that’s it, isn’t it? It’d be like writing “Have You Seen… The Sky?” or “Have You Tasted… Bread?” Even if you’ve not played Minecraft, you know exactly what it is. It was the little indie…

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Feature: Listen now and then brag about it

Podcast: Our proudest gaming achievements

﻿ To experience this #content, you will need to enable targeting cookies. Yes, we know. Sorry. Manage cookie settings Life is hard and so are videogames. So when you do a tough thing, take pride. It doesn’t matter if it seems like a small step for other people, if it’s a big step for you, go ahead and puff your chest out. But do it…


2 years ago

Feature: Stick a PIN in it

The 10 best hacking, coding and computing games



Feature: A visit to the shattered wastes of 2b2t

Lusting for ruin on Minecraft’s most apocalyptic server

It has become increasingly difficult to play games that aren’t about the end of the world. The apocalypse and its chaotic aftermath has grown into a collective obsession. We seem to have a cultural fascination, desire, perhaps even lust, to see things burn, violently breaking with the past. Even games that weren’t originally about living in the end times, like Minecraft, have been twisted into…

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3 years ago

Feature: Return of the not-Mac users

Wot we played on our holidays


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Feature: Games about hacking, coding and computing

The 10 Best Hacking, Coding, Computing Games



Feature: The Loose Canon

The greatest PC games of all time



Feature: We asked the experts

Should kids be taught in schools using Minecraft?


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Feature: Chill out

10 of the most relaxing games on PC



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