In a game as open-ended and sandboxy in nature as Minecraft, it might seem like there’s no need to cheat. Unlike a game like Words With Friends 2, you aren’t necessarily competing with anyone in the game. Once you learn the best Minecraft tips and tricks, maybe learn about all the biomes, and how enchanting works, there isn’t much you can’t do.
Except that isn’t quite the case. There are actually a host of fun and useful cheats and console commands you can take advantage of to tweak the game without downloading any mods. Since Minecraft is a cross-platform game available on almost everything, we will go over how you can activate these cheats no matter which version of the game you’re playing on.
These cheats can provide additional layers of convenience or help you get a head start in a game by skipping over some of the more tedious aspects of starting a new Minecraft world (like the laborious process of building a Crafting Table and a set of tools).
Activating cheats in the Java edition of Minecraft is by far the easiest. Start by creating a new world and make sure that the Allow Cheats option is set to On. Create your world and open the chat menu by hitting /. In this box, you can now begin entering any console commands to activate the cheat of your choice.
If you want to use cheats in an existing world, you can do so by going into the menu and selecting Open to LAN. From there, you can toggle the Allow Cheats option.
Using cheats in the Bedrock Edition is slightly different but still easy to do. Start by creating or loading a world and opening the menu. Go to the Cheats tab and toggle them On. Now, just like in Java, you can open the chat menu and input / to start entering commands. If you’re playing with a controller, you will need to hit right on the D-pad and then select your cheat from a list of options or type using the digital keyboard.
There are a ton of console commands, so here’s a comprehensive list of each one you can use and a description of what they do. This list is current as of 2025.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.