If you've been waiting to dive into Cobblemon with full visual flair, 2026 is the year the modding community finally cracked ...

HOT TAKE: Shaders (and some texture packs) ruin Minecraft! So many of them just make the game look way worse… #minecraft #mc #mcyt #minecrafttexturepack #texturepack #shader #shaders #shaderminecraft ...

The latest Tiny Takeover game drop is here, and players are wondering how they can get their hands on Minecraft 26.1 Iris Shaders to improve the visual identity of their vanilla worlds. This popular ...

Mojang has finally released the Minecraft 26.1 Tiny Takeover game drop on March 24, 2026. Compared to previous game drops, this update is slightly smaller because it only brings updated models and ...

In context: Shader Execution Reordering significantly reduces the performance cost of ray tracing and path tracing in games such as Alan Wake 2 and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle on recent Nvidia ...

Looking ahead: The first official visual upgrade in Minecraft's 16-year history was released last June for Bedrock Edition players. However, the original Java version has a long road ahead of it ...

It does make for a funny joke, though I can't recommend really playing the game with this texture pack ...

Players need Minecraft Java edition and a mod like Optifine or Iris to run a shader pack. Download the shader pack from a trusted source and store the zip file in an accessible place. Launch Minecraft ...

Minecraft has a pretty recognizable style, and it’s remained mostly unchanged for over 15 years, aside from a visual upgrade. But that doesn’t mean you have to stick with the same blocks you’re used ...

Every year, Minecraft developer Mojang brings new features to the game, including new biomes, mobs, gameplay changes, and more. Even with such a variety of changes, the game still looks pretty much ...

If you want to use some of the best Bedrock Edition texture packs, then you'll find your options are far more limited than in the Java Edition. There are still plenty of texture packs available, but ...

Ian Sherr (he/him/his) grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, so he's always had a connection to the tech world. As an editor at large at CNET, he wrote about Apple, Microsoft, VR, video games and ...