It's been a minute since we've had any bad news related to the fallout from Telltale Games going under, but the latest round of games affected by the move is the popular Minecraft story they put together with Mojang, who were the ones who posted the bad news this week.
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According to Minecraft’s Chinese publisher NetEase Games, the game has surpassed the 200 million player mark in China alone. The mod community is thriving
During one of those posts, the company revealed that over the past decade, both while they were in control and during the original Mojang days before the buyout, the game has officially racked up over 176 million copies sold around the world, in almost every single country on the planet.
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As some people have noted, that[...]
Minecraft Earth has been revealed by Mojang and Microsoft.
Minecraft Earth is an AR game that lets you build new Minecraft creations in the real world, collect bricks by exploring your neighborhood, collaborate with other players to share and improve your creations, and survive the usual Minecraft threats.
The game features both old and new mobs of enemies and[...]
Minecraft players just helped Mojang, the studio that produces Minecraft, bring a whole lot of clean water to developing countries.
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The news came that following Mojang's March donation of $10,000 to Charity: Water that the company would be doing it again, but this time in coordination with players downloading the new Travelling Trader map and skin[...]
The latest update Mjoang pushed to Minecraft has allowed players to create animated paintings, so naturally players figured out how to watch movies in-game.
While Telltale Games has closed down, Variety is reporting that the company's episodic point-and-click adventure series Minecraft: Story Mode is on Netflix.
According to a number revealed by Microsoft, Minecraft still remains a video game powerhouse with 91 million players each month, surpassing even Fortnite.
Hard to forget you're playing a game when it is a game about a game.
And Telltale leverage Mojang's hit game pretty well The moments when you build, destroy, or craft in Story Mode really does a great job of making this game different than your average Telltale series.
A bit of the story is a little[...]
Telltale Games and world-renowned game developer Mojang shared the first official trailer for Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two this week.
This trailer focuses on the upcoming first episode, Hero in Residence, which will be available for download starting July 11, 2017 on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android-based devices. Players will be able to purchase the episode for PC from[...]
Telltale Games and Mojang today announced that Minecraft: Story Mode – Season 2 is in development and set to premiere with Episode 1: Hero in Residence for download starting July 11th on Xbox One, PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android-based devices.
Minecraft: Story Mode – Season 2 continues Jesse's saga in a five-part, narrative-driven, episodic game[...]
The popularity of Minecraft is staggering. I don't know if there has ever been anything like it in games, with its popularity remaining at a massive high
Minecraft: Story Mode is clearly doing pretty well for Telltale. I've not played anything past the first episode, but I've heard generally positive things
Minecraft has been used as an educational tool in a lot of ways, and has even seen use in some schools. It's a very interesting trend that shows the
Telltale's Mincecraft: Story Mode has been churning out episodes faster than any Telltale Game has before. I assume this means that most of the episodes
Adam Cook writes for Bleeding Cool... Telltale are serious about Minecraft: Story Mode, it seems. Having released the first episode, then quickly hit us
Mincraft: Story Mode Episode 1 only came out two weeks ago, but Telltale are already dropping the next in the series on us now. Yes, surprising everyone,
You'd hope so too with a 2.5 Billion purchase of Mojang.
With the upcoming Halo 5 though, the corporation has taken the chance to throw a little Halo into the Xbox 360 and Xbox One versions of Minecraft The new pack will have add skins to both Blue Team and Fireteam Osiris It will also add[...]
Minecraft: Story Mode is just around the corner now, and it might well be Telltale's most fascinating project yet. Contextualizing Minecraft with a
Facebook creeps me out.
— Markus Persson (@notch) March 25, 2014
But, of course, Persson isn't the head of Mojang any more, so that is all to the wind now.
A VR Minecraft experience could actually be very cool A good sense of familiarity reframed could be a nice way of easing people in to the technology.
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Minecraft: Story Mode is going to be very interesting to watch play out. Seeing how the core Minecraft audience adapts to playing a Telltale narrative
One of the most exciting things about Microsoft's HoloLens tech is that its applications are huge. In business, productivity, science and, of course,
When Microsoft acquired Mojang for $2 billion, there was always a wonder as to what this would mean in the grand scheme of things Could we expect a new Minecraft for example?
At MineCon, which is happening in London right now, Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta was announced Mojang are claiming this is a "whole new[...]
Until today, we didn’t really know what HoloLens and gaming looked like together. The augmented reality possibilities were vast, but what exactly did it
Look. All of this is ludicrous, but we are going to push through this story together. Kotaku are reporting that Turkey might be on the edge of banning
People have made some stunning things in Minecraft. The game has acted as a canvas for life sized models of all manner of things, from Starships to
In this new video, Conan explained his plan for a full Minecraft episode, but that Mojang eventually ended up getting cold feet about the idea.
Instead, he animated just a part of an episode to show the developer what they were missing out on.
Take a look below:
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For a guy who has said he doesn't really[...]
To illustrate that number, you could give a copy to every single person who lived in South Korea and probably still have several million left.
The game appears to be as popular as ever too with Mojang developer Nathan Adam recently revealing a couple of updated totals to the public A few day ago, he took[...]
Mojang's Marc Watson announced the figure on Twitter saying:
Minecraft for PC passed 18 million sales today :o
— Marc Watson (@Marc_IRL) January 5, 2015
That is for PC alone too Minecraft is on just about every platform, from mobile to consoles It does very well for itself on each and every one of those devices too.
The total[...]
It has been a busy week on that front.
However, there was also the small case of a $2.5 Billion aquisition…
Microsoft Buy Minecraft For $2.5 Billion, Notch And Key Personnel Leave Mojang
There is a story this week that really dominated and it is no secret as to why Microsoft have acquired the infinitely popular Minecraft and[...]