Some people got a very unpleasant surprise when they turned on their newest version of Minecraft.
It appears the creative community has been hit by the Minecraft wave and approves.
It looks a bit like the love child of Minecraft and The Legend of Zelda.
Like your favorite candy or fictional TV couple, Lego and Minecraft were meant to be together.
In addition to Minecraft, Mojang is also hard at work on its next game, Scrolls.
Minecraft creators Mojang have unveiled more details of the next game it will be releasing, Scrolls.
Rough industry estimates suggest the PC version of Minecraft has sold about eight million copies.
Millions of copies of Minecraft have been sold, including over 450, 000 on Christmas Day, 2012 alone.
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All in all, the global community involved with Minecraft is thought to be about 40 million strong.
Unlike Minecraft, which mainly focuses on construction, Brick-Force has an emphasis on the combat side of the genre.
He cites the example of 32-year-old Swedish developer Markus Persson who released a game called Minecraft in 2009.
The online game Minecraft is the most popular quiz theme for the bunch, followed by tennis and golf.
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Minecraft is a sandbox game which allows players to build constructions with textured cubes in a 3D world.
Gearbox continues its winning tribute streak following the developers nods to both Minecraft and Dark Souls.
As Minecraft illustrates, in sophisticated multiplayer virtual environments there can be user-contributed IP pretty much everywhere you look.
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The first version (Alpha 0.1) will focus on the creative aspects of Minecraft.
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Some people know immediately: They'd create physical Minecraft models, make manga figurines, pop out replacement parts for a motorcycle.
Between July 2011 and June 2012, it captured more hours played than World of Warcraft and Minecraft combined.
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My 11-year-old son loves a game called The Magic Candle developed by Minecraft.
As a standalone title, it will be following an iterative, Minecraft-style development cycle.
Oracle says that more than one billion people use Java, and some games like Minecraft are built around it.
They are tablet savvy, navigating Minecraft in ways that are puzzling to me.
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Some build palaces, giant sculptures or recreate real world places using Minecraft blocks.
During the year 2012, games like Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Minecraft and DragonVale became massive revenue generators on iPad.
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But right now, Minecraft has once again proven that weird games from small developers can play with the big boys.
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And I wanted to see if they, too, had seen Minecraft take over their households, and what they thought about that.
Finally, by the time Elite appears Markus Persson, creator of Minecraft, may have finished work on his space simulation game 0x10c.
Mojang is also working with 4J Studios to develop an XBox 360 version of Minecraft, which will be released on May 9th.
And of course, this summer sees the release of LEGO Minecraft.
Minecraft got its name from the help of a thread on TIGsource.
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