Minecraft has been out nearly two years now. Hard to believe, isn't it? Fans of the game have been spoiled with a lot of new content over that span from its creator Notch, as well as its modders. A couple months ago, Notch tortured the Minecraft community by tweeting some scre ...more
So someone took a ThinkGeek April Fool's Day joke and turned it into something real and awesome.
Catchy song is even catchier when reproduced in Minecraft. If you go to the YouTube page, you can download the MP3.
There's an easy way and a hard way to build a portal in Minecraft. The hard way involves getting your hands on a diamond pick, and those are not thick on the ground. Here is the easy way to build a portal!
Looking to enhance your Minecraft experience with the Portal Gun mod? Start by watching this video. You'll have to download Modloader and Audiomod and the Portal Gun. Playing Minecraft on your Mac will just keep getting better. Have fun with the Portal Gun!
The Minecraft portal, part of the October 31st Halloween Update, is a frame of Obsidian that teleports the player to the Nether. Watch this video and learn how to create a Portal in Minecraft, avoiding obsidian mining, and without diamond tools.
Are you afraid of the dark? Then you probably shouldn't visit the nether, Minecraft's version of hell. But if you don't mind being scared, check out this video to learn how to build a portal out of steel and lava that will take you to the nether.
Delve into the Underworld! This tutorial shows you how to build a portal into the Nether in your game of Minecraft. You will need lots of obsidian to build this, so find a pool of still lava as your first step.
Zombies are coming and they're going to take over everything- including Minecraft 1.5_01 Beta. Watch this video to learn how to install Zombiecraft on your Mac. You'll need to download this first. Watch this video and you'll be in Zombie Minecraft heaven in no time.
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our advanced tutorials and come play with us on our free server. As of the 1.0 release, Minecraft has an end. That is to say, The End and the The End has Dragons. This guide is for those of who are want to visit The End and kill an Ender ...more
To start with, this tutorial shows you how to make a compass in Minecraft that will always point towards your spawn location. It also demonstrates how you can safely mine for obsidian from lava pits, and how to build portals into the Nether.
Minecraft mods (modifications) are additions to the game that change the way you play. They include texture packs, shaders, changes in gameplay, additions and subtractions and everything in between. Some of this information is very basic, other bits might help you along if you ...more
Looks like Minecraft is getting some cool new features, including editable books and colorful wooden half slabs. Check out the video below to see the newest Minecraft Snapshot 12w17a in action. Warning: This release is for experienced users only! It may corrupt your world or m ...more
Welcome to Minecraft World! Check out our tutorials, post to the community corkboard, and come play on our free server! Minecraft 1.2.5 has been planned for a few days now, but Jeb wanted to wait for modders to catch up to the new changes. This time around, things should run ...more
Notch loves Halloween. He must, because he keeps putting scarier and scarier things into Minecraft around Halloween time! Today, Minecraft 1.4.2 was released, and it's a doozy. Versions 1.4 and 1.4.1 were actually skipped entirely, as lots of bug-fixes were patched between th ...more
Like clockwork, Apple has unveiled the latest additions to its ARKit tookit at the annual Worldwide Developers Conference, where ARKit first said hello to the world in 2017, as well as some new tools that take a direct shot at Unity, Unreal Engine, and others. Coming to iOS 1 ...more
As I said before in my earlier post on how to make a two-tone doorbell, sound is more than just music. Note blocks can create a wide variety of notes and sounds, and those can be used for more than just making a stirring rendition of "Still Alive" from Portal. In this tutoria ...more
It's the holiday season, and the tech industry is giving consumers several AR products and apps as gift-giving options. When Facebook started shipping Portal TV on Nov. 5, it marked a milestone as the first mainstream AR device for televisions. We had a chance to run it throu ...more
Apple demonstrated their continued interest and investment into the awesome world of augmented reality during their Sept. 12 event, highlighting a few new AR games that will appear on iPhones thanks to ARKit. But that's not all you can expect — as long as you have an iPhone wi ...more
It's a controversial headline, I know, but bear with me and I'll explain in due course. Disclaimer: I was once a child, and I played lots of video games. I didn't look anything like this child. Are Video Games Good or Bad? Ah, video games: that perennial time-waster that chi ...more
In these times of social distancing, video calling is becoming the technological substitute for face-to-face connections. For those who carry an iPhone, the art of video calling defaults to FaceTime, the native app on iOS that is exclusive to Apple devices. But what do you do ...more
If we were to assign a theme for the 2019 edition of the Next Reality 30 (NR30), it might be something along the lines of, "What have you done for me lately?" Many of the top names in the industry from the 2018 edition remain the same, but their positions have shuffled. The p ...more