OptiFine is one of the most useful Minecraft mods out there. Players load hundreds of chunks as they explore a single world, which puts pressure on the device running the game. This is where OptiFine ...

The Java Edition is Minecraft's oldest before Mojang released versions for different devices. Since the sandbox game has been out for more than a decade, there is a long list of old beta versions of ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Minecraft alpha version 1.1.1, an extremely rare build of the game that was only available for a few hours back in 2010, has finally been recovered ...

"Minecraft" archivists are always on the lookout for old and rare builds. More than a decade ago, a woman installed the then-latest edition of the game, a bugged version that was replaced less than ...

A group of archivists that have been working to preserve every version of Minecraft ever released have finally found an early alpha version of the game that was thought to be completely lost. The ...

As everyone is told, if you put something on the internet, it will be out there forever, whether it is publicly available or not. Case and point is a recent discovery of a long-lost version of ...

10 years ago, a little known Swedish video game developer released a 3D building block game on a website forum full of other indie game developers. Since then, Minecraft has sold more than 176 million ...