One of the most appealing features from Minecraft on consoles is the ability to play splitscreen multiplayer. A little trick on PC will let you do the same.

Even if you want to play a match or co-op in a PC game, it's hard to tell the opponent who wants to play multiplayer to buy the game software. With the free Windows software ' Universal Split ...

"Minecraft" offers cross-platform play for both versions of the game — Bedrock and Java — but you can only play with users who own the same version.

That's some inspired naming right there. This gives purchasers access to both editions of the game, and is now the "only offering of vanilla Minecraft on Windows PC.

PC players have been working on split-screen mods for some time, but this builds split-screen into the main game and makes it really easy to use.