EL33TONLINE: News tag archive: minecraft
Minecraft is currently the second most played game on Xbox LIVE. That’s according to the weekly Xbox LIVE activity chart which shows that Minecraft moved up from third place last week, overtaking Call of Duty: Black Ops to secure second, beaten only by Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3.
I have two words for you: Minecraft Phenomenon.
When I took on Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, I had volunteered to review it for nothing else but simple curiosity. Even though I’ve been seeing mention of this game in Internet articles for a while now and I’ve heard people talking in hushed tones about the game around the office water cooler, I had no idea what Minecraft was and I needed to find out for myself what all the fuss was about.
Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition.
Have you ever heard of a guy named Notch (aka Markus Persson)? He made a small little game called Minecraft. He then sold it before it was released and made, like, a gazillion bucks! He then got into legal fights with Bethesda, tried to help Tim Schafer make Psychonauts 2 and named his next game 0x10c (no, I do not know how to pronounce that either).
Before Minecraft made him his millions, however, Notch made a little game called Breaking the Tower. The game is available on the Mojang website for the sweet price of your time, and nothing else.
The sleeper hit that became a breakout hit on PC has been announced for Xbox 360 with Kinect support. At today’s Microsoft press conference at E3 in Los Angeles, Phil Spencer, Corporate VP of Microsoft Game Studios, announced that the game would arrive on Xbox Live Arcade this Winter for half the world. That means for the other half of the world it will arrive on Xbox Live Arcade this Summer. (Ok, technically that still only covers about three quarters of the world; a whole bunch of people don’t experience Summer or Winter because at the equator there is only Wet and More Wet).
Following on from the Independent Games Festival Awards on Wednesday evening last week, the ceremony rolled right into the prestigious Game Developers Choice Awards, an event that aims to recognise the very best accomplishments in the world of videogames.
The games chosen to receive an award at the Game Developers Choice Awards (and development teams behind these titles) this year included Red Dead Redemption from Rockstar, Minecraft from Mojang (continuing its winning ways from the IGF Awards), Mass Effect 2 and Limbo – but only one game could be crowned ‘Game of the Year’…
The full list of winners at this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards is as follows:
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