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: PBS uses Minecraft to explain a 'post-scarcity economy'

Don't you hate finding out the games you enjoy playing are actually a ruse to teach you about theoretical economics? Apparently that's what Minecraft has been doing all along, at least as it's presented in the above PBS Idea Channel video. It's the betra...

joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Jul 26 2012 02:00 GMT

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: Dad Asks For Advice on Son’s Minecraft ‘Addiction’, Gets Told to Help Him Build Stuff

#minecraft Kid loves video game, spends lots and lots of time with it. Parent frets over kid, thinks offspring might've fallen prey to the bogeyman of video game addiction. It's a scenario that probably pl...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jul 25 2012 21:00 GMT

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: Conan O'Brien plays Minecraft, rates it a '26 C'

Conan O'Brien is a self-admitted "clueless gamer." He thinks the Xbox controller is a neck massager. Anyway, here's a clip of him trying to review the ridiculously successful Minecraft. He may have a point about the graphics.

teamcoco.com posted by Joystiq Jul 24 2012 16:00 GMT

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: Conan Plays Minecraft, Trolls Graphics

#minecraft Only Conan O'Brien could play Minecraft and say it's like being a Welshman in the 19th century, spending your waking hours digging in a coal mine. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jul 24 2012 06:30 GMT

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the pc version isnt much better anyway
because they didnt finish it

: A Moving Tribute To The Last Man Alive In Minecraft

#minecraft What happened to the world? Where have all the Steves gone? And will this Steve ever find happiness again? More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jul 24 2012 01:30 GMT

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: The Best Minecraft Dog You'll See Today

#minecraft This was created by dedicated Minecrafter Nathan Chatham as a tribute to Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski and his wife Lauren Berggren. It's their dog. It's totally adorable. More » ...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jul 23 2012 20:30 GMT

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: Patently Ridiculous: Notch vs Barry Bumgardner

Annoying news: Uniloc, a company known for spurious software patent claims, is making a spurious software patent claim against Minecraft, as well as against EA, Gameloft, Halfbrick (Fruit Ninja), Laminar (X-Plane) and Square-Enix. Wonderful news: the l...

lawyerdb.org posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jul 23 2012 10:00 GMT

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: Uniloc sues Mojang over alleged patent infringement in Android version of 'Mindcraft'

Texas-based tech-patent collector Uniloc has filed suit against Mojang, claiming that the Android version of "Mindcraft," (seriously, that's what it says in the filing), infringes upon Patent #6,857,067, "System and method for preventing unauthorized acc...

notch.net posted by Joystiq Jul 21 2012 18:30 GMT

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: Exploit Found in Minecraft, Some Users Able to "Impersonate" Other Players

#minecraft Smash hit Minecraft has been slowly found to have been compromised over the past week, a flaw in the game's authentication system resulting in a loophole that's given us one of the weirdest explo...

mojang.com posted by Kotaku Jul 15 2012 09:39 GMT

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: Minecraft and Trials Evolution getting free DLC to celebrate 5 years of Summer of Arcade

Minecraft and Trials Evolution will receive "exclusive content" on the Xbox 360, to celebrate five years of Microsoft's Summer of Arcade promotion. Beginning July 18, Minecraft players can nab a "customized Summer of Arcade skin pack" with skins inspired...

majornelson.com posted by Joystiq Jul 13 2012 07:00 GMT

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: An RPG Classic, In Glorious Minecraft Form

#chronotrigger Here's a confession: I'm a sucker for awesome Minecraft projects. Particularly the ones that recreate great RPGs or stunning worlds. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jul 12 2012 17:30 GMT

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: Minecraft XBLA Skin Pack also includes Master Chief

What cavalcade of Minecraft skins would be complete without everyone's favorite cyborg? Play XBLA revealed Master Chief as one of the 40 different skins coming to Minecraft on Xbox Live Arcade.As you can see above, Master Chief isn't the only recognizabl...

playxbla.com posted by Joystiq Jul 06 2012 22:10 GMT

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: Minecraft 1.3 to merge single and multiplayer, coming August 1

Minecraft version 1.3 is on the way, and this update looks to be a doozy. The most sweeping change will be a merging of single-player and multiplayer modes. More specifically, single-player as everyone knows it will now be a "shell on top of multiplayer....

mojang.com posted by Joystiq Jul 05 2012 15:52 GMT

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It's like if an RPG was just running around in a field fighting random encounters and then people add in the story, the towns, and the boss battles. You pretty much leave out anything besides the base mechanics, that's how it's done I think.

: Minecraft 1.3 Adding LAN, Adventure Mode In August

Scrolls just hit playable Alpha, and Notch is off programming computers inside of other computers (inside of other computers still, if life as we know it is in fact a nightmarish artificial construct), but Minecraft keeps on plugging away. LAN support �...

minecraft.net posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jul 06 2012 08:00 GMT

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: More Minecraft XBLA skins include Ms. Splosion Man, Banjo

Five more of those 40 upcoming skins for the XBLA version of Minecraft have been revealed in all their pixelated glory. Jack of Blades, Clayton Carmine, Banjo, Ms. Splosion Man and a prisoner will all be working towards building a better, blockier tomorr...

playxbla.com posted by Joystiq Jul 06 2012 07:45 GMT

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: Minecraft XBLA character skin pack features a few favorites

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is getting a DLC pack with 40 character skins, set to drop around the same time as title update 1.7.3, which entered Microsoft certification today. Some of the skins are originals, while five of them in particular are based on...

playxbla.com posted by Joystiq Jul 04 2012 00:00 GMT

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: Minecraft Creeper Hoodie About as Terrifying As An Actual Creeper

#minecraft There's only one way a hoodie based on Minecraft can be genuinely terrifying. And that's this way. More »

fashionablygeek.com posted by Kotaku Jul 03 2012 06:30 GMT

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: If Minecraft Were a Gooey Cute Japanese Anime

#humor With the Xbox Live version of Minecraft, anime fans thought now would be as good a time as any for this. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 29 2012 11:20 GMT

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: Minecraft Ban Leads to SWAT Team Assault

#crime Last year, the Washington state legislature was said to be considering stronger laws and punishments against "SWATting," which is trolls' cute way to take revenge when something displeases them in an...

king5.com posted by Kotaku Jun 22 2012 01:30 GMT

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: I Dig It: Live Action Minecraft

Corridor Digital are wizards, harnessing their powers to make live action movie-magics based on them there vidjagames. They’ve tackled Minecraft before but their new short, Diamonds are Forever, could be their best yet. I do wish it concentrated more o...

rockpapershotgun.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 21 2012 12:31 GMT

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: If Minecraft Had a High-Tech Physics Engine

#minecraft One of the charming (and most would say, integral) things about Minecraft is the game's floaty, particular physics engine. But what if it had a "proper" next-gen physics engine? More » ...

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 21 2012 01:00 GMT

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: 'Minecraft: Diamonds are Forever' brings big blocky action

Building off the epic Minecraft action of last year's The Last Minecart, the crew of Corridor Digital - who have also produced quality works on cheat codes and instakills - return with Minecraft: Diamonds Are Forever. Sadly, there are no Bond or Kanye ap...

joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Jun 20 2012 21:00 GMT

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: This Is The Best Minecraft Short Film I've Ever Seen

#minecraft Check out this awesome Minecraft fan film, courtesy the folks at Corridor Digital. The special effects are excellent. Kinda cheesy. But mostly excellent. More »

kotaku.com posted by Kotaku Jun 20 2012 17:30 GMT

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: Modern! Minecraft Adds ‘Local Area Network’ Support

A proposed new technology will allow personal computers within the same building to share data with each other via a physical cabled connection. The innovation is believed to allow significantly better speeds and latency than existing ‘online’ connec...

rockpapershotgun.com posted by Rock, Paper, Shotgun Jun 18 2012 14:00 GMT

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: Minecraft XBLA update coming tomorrow

Minecraft's XBLA edition will get a patch tomorrow, fixing issues with save crashes, enemy spawning, zombie pigmen, and "being able to stand on sugarcane." It also fixes the issue that prevents players from entering the Nether properly. Non-"fix" updates...

playxbla.com posted by Joystiq Jun 15 2012 03:00 GMT

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: Minecraft XBLA sales surpass 2 million copies

Minecraft for Xbox 360 has sold 2 million copies since its launch in early May. The $20 XBLA version of the sandbox crafting phenomenon sold a million units in five days following its May 7 launch.XBLA portfolio director Chris Charla tweeted earlier toda...

joystiq.com posted by Joystiq Jun 05 2012 03:30 GMT

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: LEGO Minecraft Now Real, Has Great Packaging

#minecraft While the official LEGO Minecraft set doesn't look like much in pictures, it looks a lot better before you take it out of the box, the bricks coming in square packaging that's been printed to lo...

brothers-brick.com posted by Kotaku Jun 04 2012 07:00 GMT

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: Save $5 on Minecraft XBLA through MS Store deal

The Microsoft Store is selling Minecraft on XBLA for $14.99, $5 off the price you'd pay direct through XBLA. Unlike other recent Microsoft Store deals, there's no catch that we can see.

gimmegimmegames.com posted by Joystiq May 30 2012 17:00 GMT

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: From Those Who Brought You the MineCon Proposal, Here's the Minecraft Wedding

#minecraft Remember the Minecraft-playing couple who got engaged at MineCon back in November? Well, yes, they have now been lawfully wed and kissed and no man put asunder and all that goes along with the bi...

thegoodness.com posted by Kotaku May 26 2012 19:00 GMT

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: Minecraft sells 6 million on PC, 'around 9 million' across all platforms

Minecraft's ability to churn through the bank accounts of all the cosmos continues unabated, having sold six million copies on PC to date, according to a tweet from Mojang mogul Markus Persson. Factoring in XBLA, Android and iOS sales, the figure is "aro...

joystiq.com posted by Joystiq May 26 2012 02:30 GMT

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