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Oxeye Game Studio and Wolfire Games join Humble Bundle Mojam

As if the basic premise of Mojang's 60 hour Humble Bundle charity programming marathon weren't enough of an incentive for you to hand over as many of your hard earned dollars as you want, the Minecraft developer is now being joined by Oxeye Game Studio and Wolfire Games, who will be creating their ...

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Minecraft Lego set out this summer, check out the first pics [update: and video!]

Unsurprisingly, it didn't take long at all for Lego to adapt its toys to imitate Minecraft. Just over two weeks after Lego approved the Minecraft project, Markus "Notch" Persson has gotten hold of a set, tweeting a couple of exciting pictures of blocky Creeper components and plastic landscapes. ...

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The entire World of Warcraft being recreated with Minecraft blocks

We all have goals in life -- some of us work for our families, some seek money and fame, and some work for a greater good. Minecraft forum user Rumsey's chosen path is to recreate the entire World of Warcraft inside the indie sandbox hit, Minecraft. And as you can see above, he's doing pretty well ...

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Schafer needs a millionaire to fund Psychonauts 2, Notch raises hand

Double Fine's Tim Schafer would love to make Psychonauts 2, he told Digital Spy -- he's pitched it to publishers a few times, but no one has ponied up for the project, and Schafer still needs a few million dollars to back it up. Enter: Notch. After learning of Schafer's problem, Markus "Notch" ...

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Red Dead Redemption's Blackwater and Armadillo recreated in Minecraft

You know, as much as we all may enjoy Red Dead Redemption, it doesn't do a very good job of teaching us what it was like to be a settler back in the day, building our own homes with our own blocky hands and giant, pixelated pick-axes. Some new Minecraft maps may do just that. Red Dead Redemption's ...

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Minecraft language update inadvertently contained racial slur (but it's fixed now)

Minecraft has demonstrated some magnificent feats of community creation, but now it's also offering a lesson in the volatile side of crowd-sourcing. Changing the language to Afrikaans, spoken in South Africa and Namibia, yesterday caused the title screen to display the phrase "You are a NIGGER." As ...

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Minecraft's latest snapshot introduces ocelots (look at his little spots!)

We've never seen an ocelot! Well, not one made out of cubes. The latest mob to hit Minecraft spawns in jungle biomes and can be tamed (or bred!) using raw fish, as seen in this video demonstration. The snapshot also changes skeleton AI and updates language files, but we know who the real star is. ...

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Notch asks community for permission to track player data in Minecraft

Mojang's Notch is a smart guy, not only in game design terms but also when it comes to managing his company's 20 million or so Minecraft players. The designer has posted a poll on his personal blog to discover whether his cuboid constituents would feel comfortable with the company collecting ...

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Minecraft LEGO set passes review, will become official product

Last month, Mojang submitted a Minecraft project on LEGO Cuusoo, a site that gives amateur LEGO artisans a shot at creating an official set of bricks. Said project managed to accrue the required 10,000 supporters in a matter of days and has since been under review by the fine people at LEGO. Until ...

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Hyrulecraft: Ocarina of Time reproduced in Minecraft

We don't know if you guys are aware of this or not, but people really love Zelda games. Some people, in fact, love Zelda games so much that they've spent nine months completely rebuilding a Zelda game inside of a totally unrelated and entirely different game. The Hyrulecraft project, which is ...

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