Console Sales of Minecraft Surpass PC Sales
Patrick Geuder of Mojang sent out a tweet earlier today saying that sales of the the console versions of Minecraft have overtaken PC sales. On all consoles it’s sold nearly 54 million copies. See the tweet here. The cons...
Metal Gear… Minecraft
A Minecraft player, Reichenstein7, has painstakingly recreated the entirety of Shadow Moses Island from Metal Gear Solid in vanilla Minecraft. The mod features commentary from the original game as you explore the world. It in...
Is Minecraft the Scariest Game Ever?
Minecraft is a lot of things. It’s the ultimate sandbox and creative outlet. Anything you can imagine can be made in Minecraft, even replicas of entire countries. It’s one of the best multiplayer experiences ever, working toget...
Minecraft Played with Eyebrows
When you think of video games, you think of controllers and excellent button mashing skills, well at least I do. So when I stumbled upon the story of 19-year-old Alexander Kostov I was more than intrigued. Kostov suffers from s...
Minecraft Worlds a ‘lot bigger’ on Xbox One and PS4, but Not Infinite
According to developer 4J Studios, Minecraft worlds will not be infinite on PS4 and Xbox One, but it will definitely be a lot bigger. A 4J spokesperson stated that the new worlds will be bigger on next-gen consoles, but there w...
Minecraft Saves Will Be Transferred from Xbox 360 to Xbox One
Fear not Minecraft warriors, for your illustrious castles and time-consuming towns will make it to the Xbox One. Phil Spencer, Xbox head, verified on Twitter that players’ Minecraft saves will be transferred from the Xbox...
All of Denmark Made into Minecraft Map
Minecraft has always been a favored game among gamers and for good reasons too. You can create an entire world by scratch and design it however you like (hopefully without a creeper disaster). Sometimes the worlds are completel...
Minecraft Coming to PS3 on Blu-ray
On May 14, 2014, gamers can pick up Minecraft on Blu-ray for their PS3. The game will include all of the features expected from the console versions, along with update 14, including Emeralds, Ender chests, potatoes and more. Wo...
Fortnite Seeks Alpha Testers
Fortnight, the co-op sandbox game developed by Epic, has been in development for a few years already, but not much of the game was known about until this year’s GDC. The game will be a crossover between Minecraft and horde mo...
Winterfell Built in Minecraft
Sandbox games like Minecraft and Terraria are the building grounds for some jaw-dropping creations; from individual buildings, to towns and cities, to strange objects and figurers, these two sandbox games allow users to create ...
[Rumor] Razer is creating its own VR headset
Yesterday, a tweet from Razer CEO Min-Liang Tan to Markus “Notch” Peerson (of Minecraft fame) revealed the possibility of the company moving into the virtual reality sphere and a possible partnership with the game. ...
Facebook Purchases Oculus VR for $2 Billion
Facebook announced today that they bought Oculus VR for…a lot of money. The total amount after adding together their $400 million purchase of the company and 23.1 million shares of Facebook stock comes to approximately $2...
Student Replicating Manhattan In Minecraft
Christopher Mitchell, a Computer Science PhD student, is actively replicating Manhattan in Minecraft to scale. So far, he has built Yankee Stadium (which resides in the Bronx), the Time Warner Center, the Chrysler Building, ...
Starbound Patch Removes Character Wipes
Earlier this month we heard that Starbound, the intergalactic build-a-thon, would be receiving a patch that would eliminate one of the most annoying bugs imaginable — complete character wipes. Today however, we can fina...
10 Games to Play When Depressed
Like many people, I suffer from depression. Mine is often draining and seemingly endless at times. It conjures up many feelings within me, among them anger, worthlessness and weakness. It’s pretty much caused me to withdraw i...
