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Weird combo, right? This is Eldritch, a fascinating new game from David and J. Kyle Pittman, two brothers who used to work on AAA games like Borderlands and BioShock 2.Read more...

For many, Pokemon Red and Blue are the most memorable and important Pokemon games—so it's hard not to be impressed when you watch MediocreJake recreate all of it in Minecraft. Yes, from Pallet Town to all the different roads and locations we see in Kanto.Read more...

We recreated the Mass Effect 3 Ending in Minecraft... and it's the worst ending ever.

The Unlocked crew discusses what DLC they would like to see in Minecraft and they talk about their favorite memories from playing the game.

How many copies of Minecraft have you bought? I think I’ve bought it a couple of times on PC, and definitely once on mobile. Although this 12 million is just PC sales, it seems. Despite being four years old, in just the last 24 hours it’s sold 13,947 copies. At full price (€19.95) that’s £236,880 in the last day! Even accounting for discounts, when you guess at Xbox and mobile sales, it puts total revenue somewhere near the £200,000,000 mark.

Meanwhile, Notch is flying helicopters into Jaguars because he likes the scraping sound, before blowing up a castle and climbing his caviar-and-fois-gras mountain. Cheers, Kotaku.

Beginning life on the PC, Minecraft has since appeared on *deep breath* iOS, Android, Xbox 360, Mac, Linux, the Raspberry Pi (!) and, soon, the PS3, PS4, Vita and Xbox One. That's just about every major platform and manufacturer out there. Oh, except one.Read more...

Rodrigo Guzman is 10. Born in Mexico, he'd lived in Berkeley, California since the age of 2, attending Jefferson Elementary, one of the best schools in the area. That was until he and his parents, en route to Mexico to renew their visas, were expelled from the country by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Read more...

Mass Effect is the first mash-up pack coming to Minecraft on Xbox Live Arcade, including 36 Mass Effect skins, 22 songs from Mass Effect 3, a pre-build Mars Facility world, and a Mass Effect texture set and UI. It's a massive amount of Mass Effect. The mash-up pack hits XBLA on September 4 for $4.

Wow. This themed Minecraft roller coaster is not only amazing as a construction, but it also makes me want to watch The Nightmare Before Christmas. Read more...

The problem I have with Minecraft’s biomes is the word “biome” (which means “climate zone”, btw). It’s too close to “Boom”, which means I end up singing “Biome, biome, biome, biome, I want you in my room!” whenever I read it. Mojang’s problems with the biomes, however, are a bit less childish: the rules used to create variety in Minecraft’s world generation means there’s often unrealistic placement of zones. Desert and snow bump up against each other, there are uncrossable oceans separating continents, and there’s not enough variety between chunks. Version 1.7 seeks to change those rules.(more…)

Now, modding the audio in a game like Minecraft isn't so rare. But R2Bl3nd's custom sound effects—all of which are his own voice—are too fantastic not to share. Heck, it's hard not to laugh as you watch this.Read more...

Minecraft has the ground covered, and Starmade does the whole “Minecraft in space” thing that was inevitable. But what about that bit in between? Where the ground isn’t quite the ground, but it’s definitely not space because there are no tweeting astronauts? That part of the world needs a game, if only to bridge the gap. That’s where Sky Nations floats along: in it people will live and die and laugh and love and play a block-based multiplayer game in the sky. And how do they stay up there? Airships.(more…)

Minecraft will step into its fifth year soon. Damn. It just really reveals how fast the years are passing by. SamalotPlays created a beautiful time-lapse video that shows how the game began to shape up from its early stages—including additions like the day/night cycle to rideable horses—and continuing through to the game we have today. Which, I hope, will still get a tons of updates in the future.Read more...

I'd ten times rather play a Pacific Rim game that looks like this than the forgettable mobile adaptation. Too bad this Photoshopped crossover between Pacific Rim and Minecraft (and Sim City 2000!) is just one man's imagination.Read more...

Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the legendarily successful Minecraft, has shelved his spaceship management/space exploration/space-y stuff game 0x10c, but a group of dedicated fans wants to bring it back... kind of. 0x10c was put on ice back in April due to a "creative block," but Persson told viewers of a Team Fortress 2 livestream this week that it would never be coming off said metaphorical ice, as he had no future aspirations for it. Naturally, some fans were upset. Others took it upon themselves to make sure the game was made, even if they had to do it themselves.

Shane Dalton, Project Lead of the 0x10c revival, told USGamer that he and his team "didn't really look into" why Notch cancelled the game. "We just sort of looked at the project and were like, 'Okay. This is a community project now.' We're not using any of his old code, his name or anything," he said. Dalton's team also isn't using the game's name, and instead will be referring to it as "Project Trillek" for now. Dalton and his team also have no plans to monetize the game once it's released.

All that seems to be staying the same between 0x10c and Project Trillek is Persson's story and core gameplay concept, where humans who have woken from hypersleep in the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD must navigate space and manage their spaceship, which features a fully-functional 16-bit CPU.

Update: It has come to our attention that the team behind Project Trillek does not plan on using 0x10c's original story concept. The text of this article has been updated accordingly.

Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the legendarily successful Minecraft, has shelved his spaceship management/space exploration/space-y stuff game 0x10c, but a group of dedicated fans wants to bring it back... kind of. 0x10c was put on ice back in April due to a "creative block," but Persson told viewers of a Team Fortress 2 livestream this week that it would never be coming off said metaphorical ice, as he had no future aspirations for it. Naturally, some fans were upset. Others took it upon themselves to make sure the game was made, even if they had to do it themselves.

Shane Dalton, Project Lead of the 0x10c revival, told USGamer that he and his team "didn't really look into" why Notch cancelled the game. "We just sort of looked at the project and were like, 'Okay. This is a community project now.' We're not using any of his old code, his name or anything," he said. Dalton's team also isn't using the game's name, and instead will be referring to it as "Project Trillek" for now. Dalton and his team also have no plans to monetize the game once it's released.

All that seems to be staying the same between 0x10c and Project Trillek is Persson's story and core gameplay concept, where humans who have woken from hypersleep in the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD must navigate space and manage their spaceship, which features a fully-functional 16-bit CPU.

Markus "Notch" Persson, creator of the legendarily successful Minecraft, has shelved his spaceship management/space exploration/space-y stuff game 0x10c, but a group of dedicated fans wants to bring it back... kind of. 0x10c was put on ice back in April due to a "creative block," but Persson told viewers of a Team Fortress 2 livestream this week that it would never be coming off said metaphorical ice, as he had no future aspirations for it. Naturally, some fans were upset. Others took it upon themselves to make sure the game was made, even if they had to do it themselves.

Shane Dalton, Project Lead of the 0x10c revival, told USGamer that he and his team "didn't really look into" why Notch cancelled the game. "We just sort of looked at the project and were like, 'Okay. This is a community project now.' We're not using any of his old code, his name or anything," he said. Dalton's team also isn't using the game's name, and instead will be referring to it as "Project Trillek" for now. Dalton and his team also have no plans to monetize the game once it's released.

All that seems to be staying the same between 0x10c and Project Trillek is Persson's story and core gameplay concept, where humans who have woken from hypersleep in the year 281,474,976,712,644 AD must navigate space and manage their spaceship, which features a fully-functional 16-bit CPU.

Minecraft creator Markus Persson (aka Notch) participated in this year's 7DFPS developer challenge, a week-long game jam centered around first-person shooters. Persson's entry is Shambles, a Unity-based shooter that drops players in the middle of a zombie apocalypse with 50 bullets and 100 health points.

Players don't just hunt zombies in Shambles, though, as soldiers drop weapons and civilians drop health packs when killed, turning survival into a balancing act. As with other 7DFPS games, don't expect Shambles to offers hours of entertainment, but it's a nifty way to pass a little free time.

When you're deluged with in-game recreations of basketball, the first 15 minutes of Star Wars, and a giant Golden Toilet, in can be tough to remember that Minecraft is a game with a conclusion. Someone's adapted a song from what happens after that conclusion—which I guess means this video should carry a spoiler alert.Read more...

The mob is back in town, and there's only one hero that can get to the bottom of it. Ever wonder what would happen if you dropped John Shaft into the world of Minecraft? Why, you'd get this blaxpoitation Minecraft parody by MachinimaPrime, of course.Read more...

The first batch of 2,500 Minecon tickets go on sale tonight at 7PM Eastern (4PM Pacific, Midnight UK) at the block party's official site.

A second and third batch of tickets are planned for August 2 at 10AM Eastern (7AM Pacific, 3PM UK) and August 3 at 3PM Eastern (Noon Pacific, 8PM UK).

Minecon 2013 is the third annual Minecraft convention, which will be held in Orlando, Florida, from November 2-3. As an aside of potential demographic overlap, it's only about an hour from Orlando to Legoland.

Remember when the local news discovered that girls play video games? Now intrepid reporters everywhere have discovered Mine-Crack, the dangerous drug that could be affecting our youth in all sorts of disturbing ways. Video editor Chris Person put together this super-cut. Enjoy.Read more...

Just when you think you're done being impressed by what people can do with Minecraft, somebody comes along with a mod that literally takes the game to another world.Read more...

Give people long enough in the shadow of great, inspirational games, and they won't just look to emulate one, they'll look to emulate a bunch of them in the one title. Read more...

The official Lego Minecraft set has been such an amazing success that Lego and Swedish game developer Mojang have decided to expand the line with two new official sets: the Village and the Nether.Read more...

App development studio Dekko aims to blur the line separating the real world and the blocky surreality of Minecraft with DekkoScan, an upcoming iOS app that allows users to import 3D objects into Minecraft and render them as in-game sculptures.

Dekko team member portemantho details the app's creation on Reddit, explaining that it uses technology originally built for the augmented reality racing game Tabletop Speed. The app uses an iPhone or iPad's camera to scan a 3D object, then "cubifies" the results using existing block types within Minecraft. Enterprising hackers previously produced similar results using Kinect.

DekkoScan has been submitted to Apple for approval, and should appear in the App Store shortly.

Minecraft creator Mojang has been accused of trademark infringement by miniature golf franchise operator Putt-Putt over the use of the Putt-Putt name in user-created Minecraft worlds. Game creator Markus Persson disclosed the details of the accusation, dismissing Putt-Putt's claim as the company "being silly."

The legal notice's whimsical letterhead ("Let the FUN begin!") belies the seriousness of the claim, which alleges that "Mojang AB's use of the Putt-Putt name has benefited Mojang AB to the detriment of Putt-Putt." Putt-Putt further demands that Mojang "immediately refrain from all use of the Putt-Putt trademark in connection with [Mojang's] business."

Putt-Putt's claim is accompanied by a single screenshot of Google search results featuring user-created "Putt-Putt" worlds within Minecraft.

Responding to Eurogamer's request for comment, Mojang's lawyer Alex Chapman issued the following statement:

"I think there is clearly a misunderstanding here as to what Minecraft actually is. It's a game that, amongst other things, allows people to build things. Mojang doesn't control what users build and Mojang doesn't control the content of the videos users make. Suing Mojang for what people do using Minecraft is like suing Microsoft for what people do using Word."

Yes, I am reporting on an iPhone app, but one that has interesting implications for the PC version of Minecraft, as well as science-fiction. While drifting through the Reddit rapids this morning, I happened upon DekkoScan and did a double-take. It’s a phone app that allows you to take pictures of objects and turn them into Minecraft maps, which seems like something that should already exist. It’s currently awaiting Apple’s approval (aren’t we all), but soon you’ll be able to photograph anything and cram them into Minecraft. Great! Now I have to worry about a wizard taking my photo and turning me into a hill in Minecraft. The horror of being hollowed out, chipped away, or reformed into a penis statue is creeping me out.(more…)

In the latest example of a pencil manufacturer being sued for the doodles of a pencil purchaser, the complete buffoons at Putt-Putt are attempting to sue Minecraft for the creations of players in the game. In other news, duuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh.

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Couple Minecraft with the Oculus Rift headset and the Omni, that virtual reality treadmill which allows you to walk around naturally in a game, and you're bound to get one of the most immerse experiences (currently) possible in video games. You can see what playing with that sort of set-up would be like in this video by Virtuix Omni—which they demo in multiplayer, no less. What do you think, would you play Minecraft like this? Seems like a good way to lose weight, at least. Virtuix Omni - Minecraft Multiplayer [Virtuix Omni]