Microsoft announced today the launch of Minecraft: Education Edition on Chromebooks, in collaboration with the Google Education team. This release aims to help teachers and students adapt to their ...

At the start of the year, Microsoft acquired MinecraftEdu, an organization dedicated to using the popular, blocky game as an educational tool, and said that it would make a new Minecraft: Education ...

This summer, Microsoft will release a beta of Minecraft: Education Edition written in C++ rather than Java, which looks like removing the performance problems associated with running the current ...

Microsoft is further expanding on its investment in Minecraft, bought in 2014 for $2.5 billion, by acquiring a learning game called MinecraftEdu for an undisclosed sum. The game, produced by a company ...

Now even more classrooms and kids can take advantage of Minecraft as a teaching tool. We're quickly approaching the time of year where kids go back to school, and Microsoft is supporting that by ...