UK publisher building Minecraft cottage industry
Minecraft continues to prove its status as a genuine cultural phenomenon, with UK children's publisher Egmont announcing plans to publish four handbooks, two other books, and a magazine, all about that one game. Planned for release in Europe this September, the range includes books focused on ...
Minecraft Title Update 9 trailer totally has Ender Dragon in it
"The End" is coming to Minecraft for Xbox 360. Here's the trailer for update nine, which will be free when it launches in... um, the realm of soonish? ...
Minecraft Realms subscription service to offer kid-friendly online play
Minecraft developer Mojang is thinking of the children – or, more accurately, the parents that are tired of setting up servers – with a new service called Minecraft Realms. "Our costumers [for Realms] are parents who are tired of trying to act as server administrators on behalf of ...
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition strikes retail gold on April 30
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition will arrive as a retail offering on April 30 in the United States for $20. Prepare thyself for the retail disc of the year-old Xbox 360 version of a 3-year-old PC game to outsell everything when the NPD data for April is released the following month. The disc-based game ...
Next MineCon 'most definitely in the US'
While there's still no official word on when Mojang's next Minecraft-centric MineCon event will take place, the convention's potential location has at least been narrowed down to a specific country: "It'll be in the US, that's for sure. It's most definitely in the US," Mojang director of fun Lydia ...
Minecraft Redstone Update hits March 13, pre-release out now
Prepare yourself for the Minecraft Redstone Update, which enables exciting additions such as the Redstone Comparator, a daylight sensor, weighted pressure plate, Nether quartz and ore, more detailed death messages, three settings in smooth lighting, and "many, many bug fixes." Minecraft 1.5, the ...
Minecraft being considered for PlayStation, Wii U probably not happening
Mojang's ever vigilant effort to lull the entire world into a Minecraft-induced coma continues, with the studio considering even more platforms for the ubiquitous time-sink. Though Minecraft currently has an exclusivity deal on Xbox, Mojang's Jens Bergensten, lead designer on Minecraft, recently ...
Minecraft 1.5 update hits early March
Minecraft update 1.5 is set to arrive in "early March," according to a Twitter update from Mojang developer Jens Bergensten. To be a bit more exact, Bergensten says the PC update will be live in "roughly two weeks," placing it near the week of March 11. Known as the Redstone Update, version 1.5 ...
Minecraft Pi Edition is available now for free consumption
The miniature $35 Raspberry Pi computer, as pictured above, can play Minecraft as of today, satiating the three-month wait of eager Pi users. Mojang's buildamajig is available to download from the game's Rasperberry Pi blog, with instructions there for how to set it up. The Pi Edition, as it's ...
Mojang revenue hits $237 million in 2012
We already knew that 2012 was a particularly legit year for Minecraft maker Mojang, what with its principle product being purchased over 15 million times and everything, but now we have a better idea of what success like that translates to in dollars. Well, technically in krona and then translated ...
