Minecrafters looking for a bit of four-player split-screen action won’t have to wait too long – Minecraft is coming to the Xbox on the 9th of May via the Xbox Live Arcade for just 1600 Microsoft Points or about £16-odd.
Ever fancied digging up the Giz UK page with a pickaxe? Well now you can, thanks to the Minecraft bookmarklet, which turns any page into a basic Minecraft playground. You can dig though a page to the mantle; unleash “the creeper”, and generally cause havoc to any and all sites of your choosing.
We have a fantastic community here at Giz UK (yep, that includes you), and when we put our minds to it, we can do anything -- including setting up our own Minecraft server for a bit of Giz UK-crafting.
Minecraft is an awesome, make-your-own-fun game that is simply better played with friends. Now you’ll be able to ratchet up the fun with four-player splitscreen on the Xbox courtesy of the XBLA version for even more creation-chaos.
In January, it was announced that Lego would release an official Minecraft set. The idea represents a perfect match, which probably should have come sooner. But now it's here, and it looks awesome.
There aren’t many games that have managed to both survive and thrive based purely on community created content, but Minecraft is a shining of example indie development and how to do it right.
It's happening! One of my favorite Lego projects ever is coming to life: Lego Minecraft!
Minecraft really is a fantastic thing when dedicated people put their heads together to create amazing worlds to explore. Now you can re-live a portion of your N64-playing childhood with Hyrulecraft – a faithful 1:1 scale world recreation of arguably the best Zelda game ever made, Ocarina of Time.
Dig, if you will, a picture of a sock filled with 10p pieces being hurled out of a window. Now imagine a sock filled with fun coming straight back in through said window. That’s what we’ve got for you today. Erm, sort of.
A lot of people are disappointed with Minecraft - Pocket Edition. Through tears and clenched fists, they complain that it's not nearly Minecraft-y enough, with key features in the proper grownup PC version missing from the iOS and Android versions. We would counsel those folks by buying them a beer and telling them to be patient, updates are certainly coming down the pipe. Oh, and by the way, have they tried playing a game called Junk Jack?
We first reported on the official mobile version of Minecraft way back in September, when it was an Android exclusive. This week the block-building phenomenon finally made the leap to iPad and iPhone, and potentially to the single largest audience the game has ever had. So what on earth are we/they/you going to make of it? Put down that lump of granite for a minute, and let's find out.
Indie gaming sensation Minecraft has made the leap from PC to portable devices, and guess what? It’s not on iOS, it’s on Android. This is big news. Big, Minecraft-shaped news.
