The Danish government has recreated the entire country in the hit computer game Minecraft. The first country to be fully transplanted into the blocky Minecraft games, the government hopes it could ...

In an effort to curb the spread of coronavirus, Poland has shut its schools until at least April 10. While online classes are widespread, there's still the problem of keeping housebound kids occupied.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While governments normally have to put together elaborate campaigns to get kids off their computers and outside to exercise, the Polish government is ...

A branch of Japan's government has used Minecraft to demonstrate how it plans to build a real-world dam. As Automaton Media reports, a YouTube account linked to Japan's Ministry of Land, ...

A government schools adviser and 'behaviour tsar' has criticised plans to teach schoolchildren using a new educational version of Minecraft, due to be unveiled by Microsoft later today. Get more from ...

The Japanese government has released a Minecraft map of the world’s largest underground flood prevention facility. Not only is it free to download, but it lets you explore one of the Tokyo area’s ...

Within the hugely popular open-world game, press-freedom nonprofit Reporters Without Borders creates a library to house censored journalism. Ed is a many-year veteran of the writing and editing world ...

One brick at a time — that’s how members of RIT’s Electronic Gaming Society are building a digital version of the RIT campus in the video game Minecraft. As universities across the country closed ...

The government's schools adviser has been criticised for dismissing the usefulness of Minecraft in education. Tom Bennett, described yesterday by The Times (paywall) as the government's "behaviour ...

The world-building power of Minecraft has spawned a zillion blocky, pixelated approximations of some of the world’s most famous landmarks and cities. But what can happen when a city—or even ...