As announced earlier this month, Mojang will soon launch the beta for a "whole new version" of Minecraft, the Windows 10 Edition. Anyone who's purchased the PC/Mac version version previously ...

A new Minecraft: Java Edition snapshot is here, which makes a ton of changes to recently added features from other snapshots, like to ore textures, names, and how ores generate in the world.

Mojang Studios have announced the Minecraft PC Bundle, a package deal that will give Xbox Game Pass for PC users access to both the Java Edition and the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft.

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.

In Minecraft Java Edition, players can either jump into a world on their own and explore it, or they can join their friends in a multiplayer world and play together.

Minecraft Java Edition players can only cross-play with people on the same version, which is relegated to PC, Mac, and Linux.