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The Pocket Edition of Minecraft has arrived for the Kindle Fire. It runs $7, same as the iOS and Android versions, and is available to purchase now on the Amazon Appstore. Joystiq points out persistent Kindle Fire owners had already found a way to play the game on the tablet …

Mojang's 'Block by Block' program empowers urban development

Minecraft developer Mojang has announced the Block by Block program, an initiative in partnership with the UN to encourage youth to join in the planning process of building local environments. The development studio explains the collaboration on its blog as similar to the program implemented in Sweden. A reconstruction of …

Veteran game writers Erik Wolpaw and Tim Schafer believe titles that push player-driven experiences such as Minecraft and DayZ are the future of the general gaming medium. Speaking at a panel in Seattle over the weekend (and passed on by Kotaku), the pair waxed poetic on what the two titles …

Develop talks to those leading the charge in one of the world's most productive dev hubs

Mojang has announced the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft has sold 3.6m copies since its May launch. "Was really surprised to see that 3.6 million people have now purchased Minecraft for Xbox," Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan wrote on Twitter. Add to that over 7m sold on PC (as of earlier this …

PlayStation handheld trails behind iPhone, iPad, 3DS and Minecraft

Mojang’s smash hit Minecraft has eclipsed the 7m mark for units sold on its original platform alone. The PC sales figure is just the latest in a string of significant milestones for the title, which smashed XBLA records when it debuted on the 360 earlier this year. More than 7 …

Wildly popular indie game reaches another milestone in just three months

Mojang expecting to more than double profits from last year, says studio MD Carl Manneh