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SkyBox Labs isn't necessarily known for the specific games developed by the studio. However, it has helped develop world-renowned franchises such as Halo, Age of Empires and Minecraft. NetEase has now acquired SkyBox Labs, hoping to bring some of that expertise into its ranks. SkyBox Labs is a Canadian game …

Minecraft has a huge custom modding and custom server community, and with the rise in NFTs, some custom servers have been looking at ways to integrate blockchain and NFTs with unofficial Minecraft servers. This week, Mojang officially updated its Minecraft usage guidelines, banning NFTs and blockchain technologies from being used.  …

With Mojang wrapping up work on Minecraft Dungeons, the studio has turned its attention to a new spin-off game. Minecraft Legends will be releasing next year as an all-new action strategy game developed in partnership with Blackbird Interactive. In Minecraft Legends, players will discover a full of lush biomes and …

Back in 2020, Mojang and Nvidia teamed up to implement full path-traced ray-tracing in Minecraft, releasing a bespoke version of the game on PC called Minecraft RTX. Recently, ray tracing showed up in the preview version of Minecraft for Xbox Series X/S consoles, but Mojang has since removed this, claiming …

One of the first games to take advantage of hardware accelerated ray-tracing on PC was Minecraft, transforming the simple blocky world into a visually accurate graphical showpiece. This ray tracing update is now coming to Xbox Series X|S owners. As reported by The Verge’s Tom Warren, Minecraft’s latest Preview update …

Minecraft is the best selling game in the world, with almost 250 million copies sold. Despite this huge figure, it pales in comparison to the number of  video views that Minecraft has collectively amassed over the years. As announced by YouTube, Minecraft has now surpassed 1 Trillion video views on …

While Minecraft is currently the best selling video game of all time, Rockstar Games’ Grand Theft Auto V is slowly trying to make its way to the top spot. As part of Take-Two Interactive’s Q2 FY2022 results, it was announced that GTA V is now at 155 million copies sold. …

Xbox Game Pass has continued to improve this year with the addition of more first-party games and major third-party deals. November is shaping up to be one of the biggest months of the year, with a strong line-up of headline worthy titles.  While last month's big Xbox Game Pass releases …

Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time, with over 200 million copies sold, and 140 million active monthly users. Evenso, not everyone owns the game, and so in order to boost its Game Pass numbers, Xbox has now announced that Minecraft Java Edition and Bedrock Edition will …

Roblox is one of the biggest games in the world, played by over 200 million people every month. A large proportion of these players are children, and so as a measure of ‘protection’ the online social sandbox game has now banned hand holding, kissing, and “other romantic gestures in a …

Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time with over 200 million copies sold. Since Microsoft’s purchase of Mojang, the console manufacturer has been trying to capitalise on the IP releasing new and adjacent Minecraft games – to varying levels of success. The company continues to leverage the …

As we all know, the pandemic and associated lockdowns keeping people at home led to a surge in gaming across all platforms between 2020 and 2021. Due to this, there was also a surge in malware attacks, using pirated games or mods as a vehicle for malware, leading to Kaspersky …

2021 marks the 30th anniversary of Sonic the Hedgehog. While SEGA's big anniversary game will not be released until 2022, the blue blur has been making his way into a number of other games. Now it has been announced that Sonic the Hedgehog is crossing over with Minecraft. Making the …

Since its 1.0 launch all the way back in 2011, Minecraft has continued to receive major updates, with no clear indication of it slowing down any time soon. The latest update, titled the “Cave and Cliffs” update has now gone live, with Part 1 now available for all to enjoy. …

Minecraft is the best selling game of all time. With over 200 million copies sold, the next best-selling (GTA V) is over 55 million copies behind. With so many copies sold, it may be unsurprising to see a spin-off game perform well. Even so, Minecraft: Dungeon, the Diablo-style dungeon crawler, …

Minecraft is the best selling video game on the planet. With over 200 million copies sold, the open sandbox game is far ahead of all other competitors in this regard. These figures only account for paid copies sold however. In mainland China, where the game is free-to-play, Minecraft has surpassed …

Minecraft was one of the first games to push cross-platform multiplayer between consoles, PC and even mobile. Minecraft Dungeons launched without cross-play multiplayer, but that will be changing soon, with a new update bringing together all console versions and PC.  Today during Minecraft Live, Mojang announced that Cross-Play is coming …

Just as promised, today the latest DLC fighter for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate was announced. This time around, the team is bringing Minecraft Steve and Alex to the battlefield, as well as Minecraft themed maps to play on.  The announcement was made earlier this afternoon and has much of the …

For a while now, it was well known that Minecraft was one of the best selling games of all time. The open sandbox creation game surpassed 100 million copies sold back in 2016. Despite releasing all the way back in 2009, the game continues to sell incredibly well each month. …

Minecraft, the best selling video game of all time, recently celebrated its 11th birthday. As part of the celebration, the game’s developers – Mojang – announced that the studio would be going through a slight rebranding. From now on, Mojang will be known as Mojang Studios, and the company logo which …

Back in August 2019, Nvidia and Microsoft teamed up to announce Minecraft RTX, bringing full path tracing to the game. There has been plenty of development work done since then and now this week, we'll be able to try Minecraft RTX for ourselves as the open beta is launching.  Minecraft …

Ever since it first released in 2011, Terraria has been a consistent seller. Over the course of nearly 10 years, the game has continued to see support from its developers Re-Logic. In turn, fans have continued to support the game, with the title recently being announced to have sold over …

RTX support for Minecraft was announced back at Gamescom 2019. It already looked impressive at the time but over the following months, more work has been done and today, Nvidia is sharing another sneak preview ahead of release.  Minecraft with RTX is coming very soon and to show off what …

Being inducted into the Hall of Fame is a major achievement in any industry. Each year, the World Video Game Hall of Fame sees a small number of titles join the list. 2020’s finalists have now been announced, and includes a number of expected entries, such as Goldeneye 007 and …

While there was no doubt that Call of Duty and Rockstar titles are some of the biggest names in the video game industry, consistently topping the charts, it is nonetheless surprising to see just how far above the competition they are when it comes to making money. According to the …

UPDATE: Minecraft Bedrock Edition for PS4 has officially been announced. Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time, having sold over 180 million copies of the game since its full release back in 2011. The game has seen continued popularity, with the title releasing on a plethora of …

Despite officially releasing in 2011, it would appear that Minecraft is more popular than ever. The game overtook Tetris to become the best selling game of all time, earlier this year. During YouTube’s annual rewind video, which released yesterday, the company confirmed that Minecraft had been watched over 100 billion …

Apple recently hosted an event honouring the best games and apps of 2019. The company has since revealed which games were the most downloaded of the year. Nintendo’s ‘Mario Kart Tour’ took the top spot, despite only releasing in September. Other big winners include Minecraft and Stardew Valley. Mario Kart …

Just last week, Mojang announced that it was cancelling the Super Duper Graphics Pack for Minecraft, the game’s first in-house graphics overhaul set to rival some of the most impressive mods. While the graphics pack may no longer be coming, there is something else in the works, with Minecraft set …

A couple of years ago during E3, Microsoft announced that it would be releasing its own Super Duper Graphics Pack for Minecraft, a first-party, cross-platform graphics pack comparable to some of the mods that have been available on PC for years. Mojang has been quiet on the subject since its …