If you purchased the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft and you own a standard definition television, you will not be able to play splitscreen multiplayer. This feature was one of the most heavily touted additions to the console port of Mojang’s block breaking classic (too early to call it a classic?). We have good news for the slice of

Minecraft is doing pretty well on the Xbox 360. Okay, check that, Minecraft is doing exceptionally well. The quick, official news comes to us by way of Xbox’s Major Nelson. As he reported on his blog, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition ”has broken all previous Xbox LIVE Arcade digital sales records, selling more than any other title in the first

Over the weekend, we recorded and posted a video highlighting a somewhat troubling issue for the brand new Xbox 360 Edition of Minecraft. The map size of each world is limited to a single in-game map. For the PC version of this game, however, the world is essentially infinite in size. By way of Twitter,

A small part of the allure for Minecraft is the game’s immense size. For the PC platform, it’s practically infinite. The world is procedurally generated, so unexplored lands build as you explore them. You can basically walk out into one direction forever and see the world grow as you move. Walk too far, however, and things get sloppy.

Minecraft for the Xbox 360 will officially launch this week. In case you’ve been wondering what some of the in-game goodness will look like, we’ve decided to record a few minutes worth of footage for your enjoyment.

In case you didn’t already know, the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft will boast splitscreen local multiplayer. It will work for up to four players at once, just like you remember way back when you used to yell “no Oddjob!” in Goldeneye. This console variant of everyone’s favorite indie block breaker is being ported over by

Never fear folks, Mojang, the makers of Minecraft, are still hard at work on adding more features to the game. After the flurry of Minecraft updates since early March, things have been a bit quiet on the development front, but that doesn’t mean the team isn’t still working on it. Especially with all the news

After a surprise announcement last week of a Minecraft 1.2.5 pre-release, the full version has now been released to the masses. The next time you log into your Minecraft client you’re going to find that there is yet another update ready for download.  This one is mainly about bug fixes and there are no new

Markus “Notch” Persson has gone and made Mojang’s next big game official with both a name and a set of brand new details. 0x10c is set in space, based in hard sci-fi and prepping for an early, alpha version launch. So, what is it? Well, it’s a little hard to explain. The backstory of the

You can now download and install the pre-release files for Minecraft version 1.2.5. The rundown of additions and changes includes stuff like shift+click support in furnaces, Mooshroom fixes and a way to drop TNT without causing an explosion (fellow Minecraft nerds will be excited about this stuff, we promise). This comes yesterday after a Tweet that teased

It appears the folks over at Mojang are preparing to unleash yet another incremental update for their popular game, Minecraft. Despite Minecraft 1.2.4 rolling out last week, it seems that there are still some bugs to be squashed in the system.  Jens Bergensten – AKA Jeb – of Mojang tweeted today that Minecraft 1.2.5 work

Minecraft, it’s kind of a big deal. Since its initial launch roughly 15 months ago, Minecraft has earned Mojang more than $80 million in pre-tax revenues. The numbers come as Mojang files its financials with Sweden, the country it takes residence in. For perspective, Rovio, makers of Angry Birds, reported $100 million in revenue. Mojang’s Carl Manneh spoke with

Mojang and 4J Studios, if you didn’t already know, have been working on porting the indie sensation known as Minecraft to the Xbox 360 since before last year’s E3 convention. 4J Studios has been in charge of bringing the port to the console, while Mojang has stood in a supervisory role. Minecraft will be available on the Xbox LIVE

As promised yesterday, Mojang has released the Minecraft 1.2.4 update today. The folks at Mojang are on a roll with updating Minecraft as of late.  1.2.4 marks the third update this month, but Jeb of Mojang has said this will probably be the last until 1.3 which currently has no set release date as of

Mojang is moving ahead with a 1.2.4 update for Minecraft and may release it as soon as this Thursday. According to Jeb of Mojang, a lot of bug fixes are on their way courtesy of the guys from Bukkit who have now joined the team officially.  For those of you unfamiliar with Bukkit, it’s the

Before we get to it, the game is not available…yet. Microsoft has simply put the avatar goodies featuring Minecraft elements up for sale on the Xbox LIVE marketplace. For those unfamiliar with the Xbox avatars, understand that just about every single game released today does so with its own set of unique avatar items. Things like

In an interview with Hookshot Inc., Roger Carpenter, producer for the Xbox LIVE Arcade release of Minecraft, explained a few details regarding features for the upcoming port of Minecraft to XBLA. Among them was how multiplayer will be handled. First of all, you’ll only be playing with friends on your playlist, so that negates the potential

Announced yesterday, the update for Minecraft 1.2 has been officially released. The newest version of Minecraft has officially hit, and you’ll see a screen like the image above next time you log into your game client.  Do remember that if you play on multiplay servers, you will not be able to log in to them

Mojang has officially announced that Minecraft 1.2 will be launching on Thursday, March 1. As far as Minecraft updates go, this is going to be a huge one with new jungle areas, Ocelots you can tame (pictured above), Iron Golems to protect villages from zombies, villagers can now have children, new placements of blocks for

LEGO Cuusoo, the special division of LEGO that lets fans design and vote on new and original building sets, has officially rolled out the pre-order availability of the newly decided LEGO Minecraft Micro World. Fans voted on it and pushed it into the consideration stage last year, and now LEGO Cuusoo and Mojang will have

Humble Bundle and Mojang, the developers of Minecraft, are getting together to do something special for charity. This weekend (it’s actually happening right this very second), Mojang will develop a single game over the span of 60 hours while fans can donate and watch a live stream of coding tomfoolery. They’re calling it the “Mojam.”

Psychonauts 2 is not happening…yet. News startied popping up a few weeks back that Tim Schafer of Double Fine had pitched the sequel to this cult-classic to several publishers that weren’t willing to bite. Markus “Notch” Persson, upon hearing such news, decided to take to Twitter and offer up the funding to make Psychonauts 2 a reality.

Daniel Kaplan, business boss for Mojang, spoke with Eurogamer about the Minecraft clones constantly popping up on all sorts of marketplaces. Specifically, Eurogamer directly asked Kaplan for Mojang’s opinions concerning FortressCraft. That particular Minecraft clone sells on the Xbox LIVE Indie Game marketplace for $2, and it has actually made its developers more than $1,000,000 in sales. Here’s Kaplan: “As long as

Anyone who has ever played Minecraft knows how far it has come since the early days of Alpha, and after its full release on November 18, 2011 people started to worry the team over at Mojang may halt their regular updates that players of Minecraft were used too. Mojang proved all doubters wrong on the

Yesterday morning, we ran a story about Double Fine’s Tim Schafer wanting to work on a sequel to the much loved Psychonauts. Essentially, Schafer explained that he’s pitched Psychonauts 2 to all sorts of publishing companies, but that no one has taken the bait and moved forward. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson read these comments and shot Schafer