Mojang revealed “Trial Chambers” and “The Breeze,” hostile mobs, after Minecraft Live last month. The Trial Chambers are procedurally created and present fresh challenges each time you enter. Helpful or harmful things are in every room. Trial Spawners increase difficulty according to team size, with different enemies in each chamber. Surviving these mobs will earn you a special reward. Players ...
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Power A Minecraft Grass Block Switch Controller – Price, Specs, Release Date
Owners of the Nintendo Switch console have plenty of options when it comes to controllers, with a variety of controllers suiting different types of gamers. If you happen to be a Minecraft fan and would like to have a Switch controller that matches your beloved game, then this is the article for you. Amazon has recently posted a product page ...
Read More »5 Nordic-Made Games to Play
The Nordics have for long been known to pioneer many cultural activities, but their contribution to the creation of top video games can never go unnoticed. Comprising of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, and Norway, the Nordic nation has become one of the leading forces in the game development field. Take, Sweden for example, the country’s game development industry grew ...
Read More »Minecraft coming to Windows 10
In a move that shouldn’t come as much of a surprise, Minecraft is coming to Windows 10 soon, as announced by Xbox Wire. Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta will be released on July 29th. Like the original, it is promised that this version will “develop and evolve over time with the help of your feedback”. Updates will still be free so ...
Read More »Hololens demoed at E3 with Minecraft
Showing off their most recent acquisitions and cross platform support between Windows 10 devices, Microsoft rolled out Minecraft and Hololens at the same time at E3. With the help of what is basically a Hololens unit mounted to a camera, the audience was given a peek at what it might look like to play a special version of Minecraft, developed ...
Read More »WB Announces LEGO Worlds – And You Can Play It Now
Just a few days ago, we put up an article predicting a Minecraft-like LEGO game. It just so happens that we were right about that, as today WB Studios has announced the release of LEGO Worlds, a “fully open-world, creativity-driven game” that looks to be emulating Minecraft, complete with huge open worlds in several biomes, skeletons, and loads of blocks. This ...
Read More »Microsoft working on automated image identifying technology
For a long time, an ability that humans had that machines didn’t was the ability to look at a picture and accurately describe what was going on in the picture. Relatively recently, technology advanced to the point that computers can identify what was a face and what wasnt a face with a high degree of accuracy, even to the point ...
Read More »Minecraft-Like Lego Game May Be Coming
Remember when you saw Minecraft for the first time, and you thought “Wow, that looks a lot like Minecraft.” Well, so did everybody else – Including the folks at TT games, developers of Lego Batman, Lego Marvel, etc. In an image found by someone on the Eurobricks forum, a game called Lego Worlds may well be in development. This image ...
Read More »Revealed: The Most Watched Games in Youtube History
Who would have thought that watching people crafting mines was so telegenic? If only all those soot encrusted frontiersmen – exploited by the Man, coughing their lives away in a cloud of tuberculosis and coal-dust – had had access to a second-hand $50 DV camera off eBay. They could have been internet superstars. Google have released a list of the ...
Read More »Happy Birthday Minecraft! Free Skins for Xbox Consoles
According to a press release on Mojang’s site, as of Saturday, Minecraft: 360 edition is officially three years old. To celebrate, Mojang is offering Xbox 360 and Xbox One fans three packs of downloadable skins. So, if you play on either of the consoles, sign in before the 17th of May to download the free content. These packs are available from the ...
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