Last October, Minecraft creator Mojang followed in the footsteps of Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise and inked a deal with specialist children’s publisher Egmont — for book and magazine publishing rights for the virtual world block-building game that has sold close to 10 million copies. Today Egmont has now revealed the first paper-based Minecraft products it will be launching in September. → Read More
Today on the Mojang blog, the developer announced general availability of Minecraft: Pi Edition, a version of Minecraft designed specifically to run on the open source Raspberry Pi computer. The version is completely free and was originally announced late last year as an effort to get kids more interested in the kind of exploratory programming the Pi can offer. → Read More
Voxel Farm is a game framework for sale to developers who want to create cool, photorealistic environments. But the demo, called Procedural World, is a Minecraft clone that I would pay big bucks for if it were available for sale. → Read More
The Raspberry Pi Foundation is on a mission to get more kids to learn to code — and what better way to get children excited about the power of programming than by involving virtual block-builder game Minecraft? The Foundation is aiming to release a free version of Minecraft: Pi Edition by the end of the year which will allow kids to use text commands to control the world. → Read More
Mojang, the creator of Minecraft, has signed a deal with specialist children’s publisher, Egmont Publishing, for book and magazine publishing rights for the virtual world block-building game that has amassed almost 43 million registered users. The publishing rights are for territories excluding the U.S.
There are currently no details on exactly what kind of Minecraft-related publications the… → Read More
In the world of indie gaming, Minecraft is undoubtedly in a league of its own. The sandbox game has already sold more than 5 million copies and has spawned its own subculture of fan sites and clones. Now, the game’s creator Notch (nee Marcus Persson), has announced his next project called 0x10c: a multi-player space game set in 281,474,976,712,644 AD. Besides the usual space battles, trading and… → Read More
A young man who calls himself MaxSGB built a calculator in Minecraft. But this is not just any mechanical calculator: it’s entirely “mechanical” and, if it were real, would be 5 million cubic meters in size. → Read More
Welp, I suppose it’s about time to kiss my weekend goodbye. It was a bumpy ride there for a while, but Minecraft Pocket Edition has finally gone live in the Android Market with support for (nearly) all devices.
That’s right, you no longer need to have an Xperia Play to partake in a rousing session of world-building. Any Android device running 2.1 or later is welcome to join the fun, but only… → Read More
Minecraft.Print() is a Python script that will convert any in-game object into a printable object. By placing identifier blocks at the corners of the object you can select a certain part of the the environment and then run the script to output it to a 3D printer. → Read More
I’m not one of these guys who creates functioning computers or scale models of the Vatican in Minecraft, but occasionally I’ll put together a sweet little tower and house that could just possibly be worth saving. Unfortunately, I can’t take these little structures into the real world! At least, I couldn’t before now. → Read More
Okay, last Minecraft swag post for the week. Promise. Yesterday we saw some cool Minecraft gear on Etsy, but it turns out nerd couture etailer ThinkGeek has a whole section of this stuff, some old, some new. If you’re running a Minecraft meetup, LAN party, con, fan site, or just like to dig, there’s probably something here for you (or a loved one). I don’t really like the idea of… → Read More
Minecraft will leave beta on November 11 of this year. That is to say it will be released on 11/11/11. Look at all those ones. → Read More
There will be an iPhone and iPad version of Minecraft. There, ten words to help get your Monday off to a good start. → Read More
It was just a week or so ago that I wrote our own “review” (more a primer) for Minecraft. I hadn’t really even thought that Yahtzee would review it, much less take to it like he has, considering he’s generally concerned more with putting a shiv between the ribs of the major publishers than highlighting indie games. At any rate, he loves it, and describes the general early Minecraft experience… → Read More
We saw this little Kinect hack in an earlier stage a while back, but didn’t post it. I’m posting this update now, because it’s just too nuts to pass up. → Read More
On Wednesday, it was announced that a game called Minecraft had hit a million sales. This probably isn’t the first time that you, a denizen of the internet, have heard that word. But unless you’re in the habit of following up on every mention of every indie game you happen to see, there’s a good chance this particular title might have slipped under your radar.
So what is this Minecraft, and why… → Read More
We just wanted to shout out a congratulations to wildly successful Minecraft creator Notch, who has created one of the weirdo sleeper hits of the year. With virtually no promotion, only word of mouth and a reasonable price, this indie exploration and creation game has sold over a million copies. I’ll leave the implications of this on the bloated, franchise-obsessed AAA game community to your… → Read More
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