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

You can play Minecraft solo, but it's much more fun with friends. Here's how to play multiplayer in Minecraft: Java Edition.

Minecraft has been an internet sensation ever since it first went live all the way back in 2011. Since then, players have been deeply immersed in its complicated systems and gripping gameplay loop.

Titled Minecraft: Java & Bedrock Edition for PC, the newly merged version “will become the standard and only offering of vanilla Minecraft on Windows PC,” according to Mojang’s announcement. While the ...