Friday marked the beginning of a whole new world at Liberty Science Center. The world-traveling “Minecraft: The Exhibition” is making its premiere at the Jersey City facility and runs through Sept. 5.

Like many adults, Benjamin Kelly didn’t initially get the global Minecraft phenomenon, which has seen millions upon millions of kids investing endless hours exploring and creating within a blocky ...

Melissa Wrenchey has spent over 10 years in the classroom as an educator. She is currently a computer science and engineering teacher at Tesla STEM High School in Redmond, Wash., as well as teacher ...

Arguably one of the most iconic movie scenes in science fiction cinematic history, was the Death Star run in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope. It was here that Luke Skywalker was able to "let go of ...

The 3-D world of the popular “Minecraft” video game just became more entertaining, perilous and educational, thanks to a comprehensive code modification kit, “Polycraft World.” The 3-D world of the ...

US Dept. of Education approves funding to teach coding and computer science to middle schoolers using Minecraft Education, benefiting underrepresented children. Minecraft Education's game-based ...

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, ...

Markus “Notch” Persson, the founder of Minecraft (who recently took a $2 billion from Microsoft and moved on) wrote in 2012 that he intended Minecraft to be a “genderless” game. He said the naming of ...

Researchers are continuing to investigate the psychological effects of gaming, but thankfully we've finally moved into topics beyond links between games and violence. New research suggests that games ...

"Minecraft" allows players to build their own worlds from scratch using 3-D cubes. The open-ended game allows the users to construct castles and tend to animals, or compete on large, online ...