I’ve been playing Minecraft since I was a kid, and after all these years, it’s still my favorite game. There’s just something timeless about punching trees, surviving your first night, and ...

The Entertainment Software Association has given its detailed stance on the use of private servers in games, after stating community servers in games like Minecraft could be considered illegal. The ...

The Protect Our Games Act–a piece of legislation endorsed by the Stop Killing Games movement–has been voted down at the California State Senate. However, one of the most noteworthy incidents from this ...

The ESA has made the head-scratching claim that private Minecraft servers are "illegal," arguing that they're considered a form of "piracy" in a recent hearing. During a California State Senate ...

In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921, California's Stop Killing Games-endorsed bill to compel publishers to provide ...

Minecraft servers are "illegal" and "not in any way affiliated with Microsoft or Mojang." At least, that's what Jennifer Gibbons, Vice President of State Government Affairs at the Entertainment ...

Linda Güster is a Contributor at DualShockers and a German, UK-based gaming journalist specializing in video games, esports, industry analysis, features, lists, reviews, interviews, and news. She has ...

Senior backend engineer at KAYAK building systems at scale. Writes about distributed systems, AI and tradeoffs. The software integration paradigm has broken down. For decades, backend engineers built ...

Financial crime investigators in the Netherlands (FIOD) arrested two men and seized 800 servers linked to a web hosting company that enabled cyberattacks, interference operations, and disinformation ...

Minecraft's Java Edition has long been the go-to for PC players, owing to how moddable it is in comparison to its Bedrock counterpart. However, getting a clean multiplayer experience has long ...