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Read More »LEGO Minecraft gets the green light
The proposed collaboration between Danish toy giant LEGO and indie smash hit Minecraft is officially go. The joint venture was first mentioned last year when Minecraft was nominated on the LEGO CUUSOO site. It quickly gained the 10,000 online supporters needed for further consideration and has now been approved for …
Read More »Xbox ‘to liberate devs from update delays’
Delivery of game patches and new content 'to be streamlined'
Read More »Minecraft creator develops new game in 48 hours
Markus Persson makes 'Minicraft' as part of the 22nd Ludum Dare competition
Read More »Epic shows off ‘Minecraft-inspired’ new IP
Epic Games says its new title Fortnite was inspired by Mojang’s smash hit creation game Minecraft. Gears of War creator Epic revealed its new IP Fortnite at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards on the weekend. Like Minecraft, it focuses on allowing gamers to construct their own buildings. Minecraft was …
Read More »Persson: LEGO Minecraft ‘a perfect fit’
Fans hope for custom edition of iconic building block set
Read More »LEGO ‘excited’ by Minecraft project
With fans of both Lego and Minecraft both eagerly awaiting news ona possible collaboration between the two, Lego has commented on theCuusoo projectin a statement today. "It is still too early to say whether Minecraft play sets will become a Lego product," said Paal Smith-Meyer, head of the Lego new …
Read More »Minecraft LEGO could be on the way
Danish toy giant LEGO has announced possible plans to release an official toy line based on Minecraft. The possibility cam about when users were given the opportunity to vote for the tie-up on LEGO’s Cuusoo website, where the public are invited to vote on pitches for new ideas submitted by …
Read More »Notch steps away from Minecraft development
Markus Persson (aka Notch), the creator of hit PC title Minecraft, has after four years stepped away from the game to focus on other projects. Ongoing development of the IP will from this point on be handled by new Minecraft lead developer Jens Bergensten, who has been working on the …
Read More »Minecraft by numbers
As part of the inaugural Minecon event at the weekend, developer Mojang has released a handful of impressive stats about the 4m+ selling Minecraft. According to GameFront, the game currently attracts in the region of 241,920,000 logins every single month. On top of this, it also welcomes 1,000 logins per …
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