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Minecraft Pocket Edition has surpassed 21m copies sold, developer Mojang has announced. The milestone for the game’s mobile edition was confirmed by Mojang’s Jens Bergensten on Twitter. Combined with the most recent sales info on PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 platforms, that puts the indie phenomenon damn near 50m copies …
Read More »VIDEO: See The Simpsons’ Minecraft parody intro
That’s when you know you’ve made it, right? Last weekend’s episode of The Simpsons featured a Minecraft-style intro that has left even the game’s creator Markus Persson in awe. The Simpsons did a Minecraft couch gag,” he said. I’m not sure how I feel about it. I STILL feel a …
Read More »New version of Minecraft set for Amazon Fire TV
Minecraft will be one of the big third-party launching on Amazon Fire TV. The video streaming box/games console hybrid has been backed by a number of developers, and Minecraft, Asphalt 8 and an endless-runner game based on Monsters University are all amongst the first third party titles. EA, Ubisoft and …
Read More »Minecraft tops UK Xbox Live charts for seventh time in 2014
The Xbox 360 version of Mojang’s Minecraft is once again top of the UK Xbox Live charts. The title has been in the Top Ten every week in 2014 to date, and has been No.1 seven times this year. In second place is 505’s Terraria, which has also been in …
Read More »Bleszinski: Cancelling Minecraft on Oculus makes Notch look like a pouty kid
Famed developer Cliff Bleszinski has criticised Markus Persson for his decision to pull the plug on the Oculus Rift version of Minecraft. Persson announced the cancellation of the project just moments after news of the Facebook acquisition of Oculus was announced, saying: I just cancelled that deal. Facebook creeps me …
Read More »Minecraft title update hits Xbox 360, PS3 this week
Minecraft’s next major console update is ready to launch, Mojang has announced. The indie studio listed out the notes for Title Update 14 in a post on its website, adding that the patch will land today on Xbox 360 and tomorrow on PS3. The new update features a new zombies …
Read More »Notch cancels Minecraft on Oculus Rift
'Facebook creeps me out'
Read More »Persson cancels Minecraft for Oculus Rift following Facebook swoop
A virtual reality version of Minecraft in the planning stages for Oculus Rift has been cancelled. That’s according to Minecraft creator Markus Persson, who has claimed on Twitter to have pulled the plug on the deal following the acquisition of Oculus at the hands of Facebook for $2bn. We were …
Read More »Mojang income doubles on back of continued Minecraft success
Developer brought in $128m during 2013
Read More »Warner Bros plotting Minecraft movie
Minecraft creator Markus Persson is in discussion with Warner Bros over a Minecraft movie, he has announced. The Mojang boss made the reveal in a Twitter post on Thursday: "Someone is trying leak the fact that we’re working with Warner Brothers on a potential Minecraft Movie. I wanted to be …
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