ANAHEIM, Calif. — Without as many traditional Internet A-listers as years past, VidCon, an annual social media conference for creators and their fans, seemed unusually quieter this year. That is, ...

The Dream SMP, a private server for Minecraft content creators, has exploded in popularity. Hundreds of thousands of fans watch videos about lore and characters in the server's expanding universe. Fan ...

This Minecraft SMP video documents how a series of in-game actions—such as territory takeovers, raid strategies, and broken alliances—led to server-wide hostility against a single faction. The video ...

Ollie was asleep at three in the morning when the Discord app on his phone started blowing up. He panicked; many of his friends lived in different time zones, but they knew how late it was for him.

The Minecraft SMP was broken. Power was concentrated in the hands of a few, and the "Equalizers" were supposed to fix it. But after signing a secret contract, I realized the mission for equality was a ...