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. …
Read More »Strategy spin-off Minecraft Legends announced for 2023
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 …
Read More »Mojang removes ray-tracing from Minecraft on Xbox
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 …
Read More »Minecraft surpasses 1 Trillion views on YouTube
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 …
Read More »Two Minecraft games are in development
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 …
Read More »Minecraft’s latest major update has gone live
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. …
Read More »Minecraft Dungeons has amassed over 11.5 million players
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, …
Read More »Minecraft Earth shutting down in June 2021
Mojang Studios has been quietly working away on Minecraft Earth for the last 18 months. Unfortunately, the game won't be making its way towards a full release, as the game has been abruptly cancelled. Minecraft Earth was Mojang's attempt to capitalise on the advent of AR gaming on smartphones. The …
Read More »Minecraft surpasses 400 million players in China alone
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 …
Read More »Cross-platform multiplayer coming to Minecraft Dungeons
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 …
Read More »Mojang rebranded as Mojang Studios; featuring new logo
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 …
Read More »Minecraft will be getting RTX ray-tracing
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 …
Read More »Minecraft’s Super Duper graphics pack has been cancelled
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 …
Read More »Minecraft is coming to the Oculus Rift after all
Back when Facebook originally acquired Oculus, quite a few people took issue with it, one person being Markus Persson, the man behind Minecraft. At the time, Persson cancelled his version of Minecraft for the Oculus Rift but things have changed since then, Mojang has since been sold to Microsoft, Persson …
Read More »TellTale’s Minecraft: Story Mode is releasing next month
Another game has been added to the busy October release line-up. This time it's TellTale's Minecraft: Story Mode, which was announced earlier this year. The game will be similar to TellTale's other titles in that it will also be a point and click adventure. The game is launching on the …
Read More »Minecraft now has cross play between mobile and Windows 10
Microsoft launched a brand new version of Minecraft alongside Windows 10 last month. Now, one of the new improvements coming to the game is cross-play support between the PC and mobile devices. Patch 0.12.1 will allow Minecraft Windows 10 Edition players to play with Minecraft Pocket Edition players. In the …
Read More »Windows 10 will launch with its own version of Minecraft
Minecon 2015 kicked off today so the news has pretty much been dominated by future Minecraft related happenings. Today we got our first look at TellTale's Minecraft: Story Mode and now we've learned that when Windows 10 launches at the end of this month, it will do so with its …
Read More »Mojang is killing off Scrolls
It looks like Mojang is pulling the plug on Scrolls, its battle card game, which launched some time after Minecraft rocketed in to popularity. Scrolls did not achieve the same level of success as Minecraft did and now it will be shutting down entirely, although the game will continue to …
Read More »Mojang staff were offered $300k to stay after Microsoft buyout
Microsoft acquired Minecraft development company, Mojang, quite a while back and at the time, the Minecraft community was shocked. As you would expect, some of the Mojang staff probably had some concerns of their own so in order to keep people from leaving, Microsoft offered all Mojang employees the currency equivalent …
Read More »Minecraft patch fixes persistent server crashing bug
Mojang has finally patched out a two-year old security bug that would allow people with the know-how to crash Minecraft servers by forcing them out of memory or causing them to freeze. The patch came in response to a blog post written by coder, Ammar Asker. The coder outlined a …
Read More »Minecraft could be banned in Turkey
Last month it was reported that the Turkish ministry has begun investigating Minecraft, deeming it as potentially ‘too violent'. The results of the investigation have now been revealed and it turns out that the Turkish Social Policies Ministry does want Minecraft banned. Turkish sites, Hürriyet Daily News and LeaderGamer (Via …
Read More »Minecraft creator comments on why selling Minecraft was the right choice
Markus ‘Notch' Persson has commented on the criticism he faced following the sale of Minecraft studio, Mojang, to Microsoft for $2.5 billion, explaining why it was the best choice but also admitting that he does indeed feel like a bit of a sellout. Speaking on Twitter, a fan jokingly asked …
Read More »Microsoft responds to Turkey investigating violence in Minecraft
Minecraft is likely one of the last games you would expect to come under fire for violent content but that is exactly what has happened over in Turkey. The country's Family and Policies Minister, Aysenur Islam, has launched an investigation in to the game under the impression that it promotes …
Read More »Notch just bought Beverly Hills’ nicest mansion
Suddenly becoming a billionaire overnight must be quite bizarre, as what do you do with that kind of money? But there's more than a few people that that's happened to this year. Oddly enough, they've been people in the gaming industry, like Oculus VR's Palmer Luckey and the original creator of …
Read More »Microsoft officially absorbs Mojang and Minecraft
When rumours that Minecraft and Mojang were going to be sold to Microsoft turned out to be true, it was pretty surreal and not least because Notch had been very vocal about companies selling out after criticising Oculus VR for doing that very thing. Still it happened and just a …
Read More »Microsoft could be buying Minecraft and Mojang for $2 billion
Minecraft could be gaming's biggest ever success story. Developed (initially) by one man from a clone of another game, into a massive entertainment product that's sold millions of copies on multiple platforms, Minecraft also spawned conventions and merchandise and changed pre-ordering and early access forever. And now Microsoft wants in …
Read More »Mojang clarifies why you can’t make money without its permission
Minecraft developer Mojang, made waves this week among the blocky, builder community, by announcing changes to its end user licence agreement (EULA), that made it so that nobody would be allowed to make money from Minecraft without its permission. This was quickly interpreted by the game's player base that no …
Read More »Notch’s second commercial game is called Cliffhorse
Notch has finally made another game to sell. He's worked on a lot of other projects since the creation of Minecraft sure, but none of them have come from his brain and directly affected the wallets of gamers around the world since he first cloned Infiniminer way back when. Today …
Read More »Mojang has enough money to survive ten years without profit
Markus Persson, better known as Notch, the creator of Minecraft, recently shed some light on his ten year plan for his company, Mojang. Once the Interview came out a lot of people on the Internet misinterpreted something he said in the article, assuming that Notch meant that he will shut …
Read More »1:1 scale of Denmark in Minecraft blown up by players
Last week the Danish government revealed its 1:1 scale replica of Denmark in Minecraft, the map was later put online to let curious players explore the country. However, things started going wrong pretty quickly when gamers were joining servers just to blow up Danish towns and rebuild American flags and …
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