System Shack is NME’s new column that explores the mechanics behind the industry’s most successful games. This week, Rick Lane digs into Minecraft‘s enduring crafting system. Minecraft. Credit: Mojang ...

Check out all the new features in the latest Minecraft 26.1 Snapshot 2, such as baby mob visual upgrades, Name Tag crafting ...

The first trailer for A Minecraft Movie was absolutely wacky, but it seemed like a lot of fun. Now we have our first full clip from the live-action Minecraft movie, along with some behind-the-scenes ...

Minecraft's 2025 Fall Drop update introduces the Copper Lantern, a decorative light source with a vintage feel. Crafting it requires eight Copper Nuggets and a Torch, offering a unique aesthetic with ...

A new clip of the curious live-action Minecraft movie is here. Courtesy of Minecraft Live, the clip is less than a minute long but expands on the very first peek at the live-action movie we had ...

Gavin has been freelance guide-writing since 2020, and guide-writing in general since 2015. He began full-game achievement walkthroughs on TrueAchievements, and has since transitioned to shorter ...

Minecraft has all kinds of blocks that you can craft and use. While some of them are used for certain activities, most of them are building blocks that are ideal for creating structures. One of them ...

Gather, craft, build, thrive, and sometimes survive. Here's what 2026 has in store for the open-world crafting genre.

Jack Peachey is a features writer who's worked at Dualshockers and Game Rant. An animation nerd, his favourite games don't have a genre in common as much as they all have pretty pictures. When not ...

Get ready for Minecraft Crafting Frenzy! It’s a wild ride of speedruns, insane double jumps, and mind-blowing level-ups. Can ...

And in this first clip from A Minecraft Movie, we get a good look at how crafting will work in live-action, as Jack Black’s Steve teaches Jason Momoa’s Garrett and Sebastian Eugene Hansen’s Henry how ...