Jens Bergensten has released the final Minecraft screenshot of 2013 showing off a new block type gamers will soon get their hands on. Bergensten, known better as Jeb to Minecraft fans, has revealed the bouncy block. The final screenshot of the year, seen above, which depicts the bouncy block...
As we reported a few days ago the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft has sold a colossal 10 million copies but as a game the smash hit indie title has done even better. Markus Persson, aka Notch, the man behind the hit indie title Tweeted "The original version of Minecraft has now passed 13...
Markus Persson aka Notch, the man behind the hit indie title Minecraft, has recnetly turned down Sony's offer for free games. After talking about Sony's next generation console, the PlayStation 4, Notch was offered games from Sony's Adam Boyes. However, Notch simply turned him down. Tweeting...
Jens Bergensten has recently revealed that Minecraft version 1.4.7 is now available for download. The 1.4.7 patch has brought in a few fixes that have been trialled in the latest pre-release. The crashes caused by using fireworks without a fireworks star in multiplayer and related to arrows...
Minecraft: The Story of Mojang producers 2 Player Productions has made a bold step by uploading their own feature film onto The Pirate Bay. 2 Player Productions has released Minecraft: The Story of Mojang onto Pirate Bay as they believe it would have ended up on the torrent website anyway...
Jens Bergensten, one of the team at Mojang, has recently unveiled something he has been working on that will soon be added into Minecraft. Yes, as the title suggests Fireworks will soon be coming to the PC version of Minecraft. While there isn't too much information Jens did reveal that...
The team at Mojang has recently been busy with Minecraft related products, so that two items will be available in the US in time for Christmas. Firstly, Carl Manneh revealed that LEGO had confirmed “that a new batch of LEGO Minecraft boxes will hit stores before the Holidays!” Then...
Robert Reed the sole developer on the successful Kickstarter project Timber and Stone has just unveiled a brand new alpha video highlighting building mechanics. In the video, which is the third developer diary for Timber and Stone, Reed talks about some of the new building mechanics that he...
Jens Bergensten, one of the development team at Mojang, has just announced that the Minecraft 1.4.3 Pre-release has just been released. The news was revealed on Twitter and the Mojang website by Jens; in the announcement of its release Jens also revealed that it included over 100 separate bug...
Jens Bergensten has just announced that the Minecraft 1.4 Pre-release has just been released. The news was revealed on Twitter by Jens when he tweeted "Woho, time to get ready for 1.4! This release is the full 1.4, intended to prepare server admins and mod makers. Searge of the Minecraft Coder...
Jens Bergensten one of the Minecraft developers has today released the latest Minecraft snapshot, 12w42a. The snapshot allows experienced Minecraft players to test out new features before they are released in a normal update. Jens posted on the Mojang website the details of the...
Markus Persson, aka Notch the man behind the indie smash hit Minecraft, has just released the first art test of his next game 0x10c. Notch announced the video on Twitter by posting "First draft of the art test, and more dynamic lights." The video itself shows the rather basic early game but...
Jens Bergensten has today revealed information about both a future feature and an upcoming milestone for Minecraft. The next milestone that Minecraft is soon to hit is a massive 7 million users; according to Jens due to the summer and 1.3 update boosts his estimation has “moved my 7M guess to...
Last week Microsoft officially announced, that Minecraft (Xbox 360) is currently the fastest selling Xbox Live Arcade game within a day of its release. Today the game reached another milestone, as it sold it's one millionth copy, which was achieved in five days. While the price of $20 is...
Markus Persson aka Notch has today confirmed that gamers will not have to pay a subscription to play his next game 0x10c’s single player. There was some confusion, despite Notch previously saying there would only be subscription for the multiplayer, so Notch took it upon himself to clear the...
Jens Bergensten has just revealed that the latest snapshot of Minecraft, Snapshot 12w15a, is now out and not much else. The details of what the snapshot actually changes are being kept a secret apparent from the pretty standard “Some improvements”. So to find out what has been changed it...
Markus Persson, aka notch, the man who singlehandedly started development on Minecraft has just unveiled his brand new project. Notch revealed a website to the new game on Twitter by simply linking it, http://0x10c.com/. On the website Notch explains that basically it will “be a space...
The ongoing issue between Mojang and Bethesda surrounding the use of the word "Srolls" has finally been settled. Notch revealed this news via Twitter. Here are Notch's tweets announcing the settlement: It's finally all over with and seems terms have been set that satisfy both parties....
Jens Bergensten has recently revealed that Minecraft will soon be changing its map format which should allow for easier modding of the indie title. The new map format which has been nicknamed “Anvil” at Mojang will raise the building height by a factor of two, to 256 blocks. It will also...
Every once and a while, news surfaces that seems to act only to excite people like me, the "Games R Art" hippies of our generation. One of the greatest games of the last generations may be seeing a sequel happen with a tag team flying on a rocket motorcycle from mars to bring us all...
DjArcas, the developer behind FortessCraft posted on his twitter that the game has yielded over $2,000,000. in sales. This still pales in comparison to Minecraft's hundreds of millions in sales, but is impressive in itself. DjArcas himself said... " I just became the first #xblig to...
Recently, it was discovered that if change the language setting to Afrikaans, a language of South Africa and Namibia, gamers will discover a nasty little message, (as seen above). The game has somewhere around 56 different language options allowing millions of users across the globe, the...
Markus Persson aka Notch the guy behind Minecraft has recently revealed his views on pirating his game. When Notch was recently asked if there was a way to obtain a free Minecraft account Notch spelt it out in plain English, "Just pirate it." He went onto as that "If you still like it...
Markus Persson, aka Notch the man behind Minecraft, has gone to Twitter to apologise for the recent comment he had made about the Yogscast team. Ironically it was via Twitter that Notch originally publicised his issues with Yogscast but now has this to say on the matter, "It's likely the...