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News Pac-Man Teams Up With Minecraft To Celebrate His 40th Anniversary
Waka-waka!
This week, Pac-Man celebrates his 40th anniversary. Yep, he's been around for 40 long years now gobbling up high-scores in arcades all around the world. As part of the celebrations, Bandai Namco has teamed up with the gang at Mojang to release a special themed DLC in Minecraft. This new pack, available now in the Marketplace for 1340...
News 126 Million People Are Now Playing Minecraft Every Month
Are you one of them?
Mojang Studios' Helen Chiang has put out a new article over at Xbox Wire celebrating Minecraft's 11th anniversary, revealing that the game is connecting more players than ever before. Specifically, over 200 million copies of Minecraft have been sold to date, and 126 million people are playing it every month. Chiang also...
News Minecraft Developer Changes Its Name, Teases New Games
Celebrating Minecraft's 11th birthday
The creator of Minecraft has announced that it's changing its name from Mojang to Mojang Studios. The company revealed this in a news post on its website, unveiling a new name, logo and a few exciting teases in honour of Minecraft's 11th birthday. The reason for the change is two-fold - the first is simply to...
News Minecraft First Released For Xbox Eight Years Ago Today
Has it been that long?
It's hard to believe it's been almost a decade since Minecraft first debuted on Xbox! The first version of the game was called Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition and launched digitally on May 9th, 2012 for 1600 Microsoft Points (remember those?). An updated Xbox One version was released two years later in 2014. Minecraft itself...
Video Minecraft Looks Incredible In This Stunning RTX Beta Gameplay
Mesmerising
The Minecraft RTX Beta dropped just a few days ago for PC users with an Nvidia RTX GPU, and fans have already been posting some incredible footage of the game. The video you see above is taken from Digital Foundry, which produced a forty-minute hands-on with the new tech. You'll get a look at how lighting is drastically improved due to...
News Sorry Folks, Minecraft Dungeons Won't Allow You To Fight Alongside Random Players Online
And cross-platform play is coming in a future update
If you had plans to team up with a party of random adventurers when Minecraft Dungeons is released on the Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass service next month, you'll need to find a workaround. The official FAQ over on the Minecraft website reveals it won't include online matchmaking support, and...
News The Minecraft RTX Beta Begins On PC This Week
Features Nvidia DLSS 2.0
A few weeks ago, we were treated to some jaw-dropping Minecraft DirectX Raytracing images and an Xbox Series X demo. Now, Nvidia has announced an RTX Beta is coming to Windows 10 later this week, which will be a free download for all PC users with an Nvidia RTX GPU on April 16th. The beta will feature Nvidia DLSS 2.0, which...
News Mojang Reminds Us It's Not Interested In Developing A Sequel To Minecraft
Would rather explore "other genres" within the same universe
How do you create a follow-up to Minecraft when it's already seemingly limitless? According to its developer Mojang, you simply don't. While the Swedish company has listed various reasons in the past as to why it probably won't have a crack at a sequel, the same topic resurfaced during a...
News Minecraft Dungeons Gets A Release Date, Coming To Xbox Game Pass
Not in April though
Minecraft fans, listen up! After originally being announced for April 2020, action-adventure game Minecraft Dungeons is now officially coming out on May 26. The game launches for Xbox One and Windows 10 PC (as well as PS4 and Nintendo Switch) and here's the best part - it's included for free with Xbox Game Pass subscriptions...
News See Footage Of Gears 5 And Minecraft Running On Xbox Series X
Includes a Ray Tracing demo
As part of the Xbox Series X reveal we've been treated to so far today, we've heard various bits of information about updated Gears 5 and Minecraft versions. And now, you can see them in action for yourself in footage provided by YouTube channel This Is at the top of the page. We previously heard about an updated Gears 5...
News Spencer: Microsoft's Buyout of Mojang Won't Affect YouTubers
Build 'em high!
Xbox head honcho Phil Spencer has laid to rest concerns that Microsoft's acquisition of Minecraft developer Mojang will affect people who publish YouTube videos of the game for fun or profit. The concerns quickly came to light once the deal announcement was made, with prominent YouTubers making it clear that they were concerned that...
