Microsoft knows that Minecraft can get kids into programming, and it's banking on that strategy again this year. It just teamed up with Code.org to introduce the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a ...

In Minecraft, you’ll start with a single block of wood and eventually end with a fortress made out of diamonds and a portal that leads to the netherworld. Everything that happens in-between is the ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 15, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. and Code.org on Tuesday unveiled the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a coding tutorial for students and educators created for Hour of Code, an annual, ...

REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 16, 2015 — Microsoft Corp., Mojang AB, and Code.org on Monday unveiled a “Minecraft” coding tutorial for students and educators, created especially for the third-annual Hour of ...

Mojang's hit sandbox game Minecraft made its Xbox debut on Xbox 360 four years ago today. To celebrate the milestone, Microsoft and Mojang have announced they are giving away DLC to everyone who owns ...

WTF?! The effects of Telltale Games' closure are still being felt. With Minecraft: Story Mode one of the titles soon to be delisted as a result of the studio's shuttering, the game's individual ...