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Minecraft Title Update 8 is all about fixes, nixes Ender Dragon till TU9
Minecraft on Xbox 360 gets a host of fixes in Title Update 8 today, but no Ender Dragon as Play XBLA previously reported. Ender Dragons certainly are sneaky beasts, considering their size. Title Update 8 includes fixes for a few random crashes and freezes, to force a Nether Fortress, Blaze Spawner ...
Minecraft Creepers (sorta) invade Awesomenauts
Look, Creepers are dangerous enough on their own – people don't need to be going around giving them powered suits of armor like Ronimo Games has done in its latest Awesomenauts update, which is now live on Steam. Well, technically it's not a Creeper, but rather a Creeper skin for existing ...
Minecraft PC sales reach 9M units, franchise at 20M
Minecraft's PC version has sold over 9,000,000 copies. The word comes from Minecraft developer Jens Bergensten, who believes the total sales for the game across all platforms is somewhere around 20 million units. Bergensten also noted that in terms of pacing, Minecraft Pocket Edition has stamina, ...
Swedish school has kids play Minecraft, turns out they like it
One school in Sweden added Minecraft to its curriculum for 13-year-old students in an effort to teach lessons of building in virtual worlds, city planning, environmental awareness, preparing for the future and completing goals. Also, hitting livestock with wooden swords. The Minecraft lesson plan ...
Minecraft purchased over 15 million times across 2012
Last year saw a total of more than 15 million purchases of Minecraft across all platforms, with Pocket Edition the leader at just under 5.9 million across iOS and Android. As if we needed any more proof of the blocky sandbox's success, Mojang published concrete figures for last year's sales, ...
Minecraft XBLA closes out the year by reaching 5 million sales milestone
Minecraft dug deep on New Year's Eve to reach 5 million sales on Xbox Live Arcade before the close of 2012. The news is maybe not surprising given the franchise's prolificacy across the board over the last 12 months, including 453,000 sales on Christmas Day alone, but the achievement still ...
Minecraft franchise sells 453K units on Christmas
It's Christmas, the presents have been opened, turkey and ham consumed – it's the midday lull. What to do? If you're like over 400,000 other people, you buy whatever version of Minecraft is handy. Across all available platforms, Minecraft sold 453,000 copies on December 25, according to the ...
2 Player Productions uploads 'Minecraft: The Story of Mojang' to The Pirate Bay
So, you know how the Minecraft documentary Minecraft: The Story of Mojang premiers on Xbox Live today, and will be available for purchase on DVD tomorrow? Well, that world premier just become a bit less exclusive, as 2 Player Productions has uploaded its film to controversial torrenting destination ...
'MineThon 2' Minecraft marathon for Child's Play now mining, crafting
To quote the greatest Christmas movie of all time, "It's not the giving, it's not the getting, it's the loving." But, sometimes loving is giving, especially when you don't expect anything in return. To wit, a group of Minecraft enthusiasts are giving up the next 72 hours of their lives in the hope ...
Minecraft: The Story of Mojang hits DVD December 23
On December 23, Minecraft fans will get their chance to pick up a DVD copy of 2 Player Productions' documentary, Minecraft: The Story of Mojang. This follows its debut on your Xbox 360 this Saturday, December 22. The DVD will be on sale through Fangamer for $20, with the first 7,000 copies coming ...
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