Today's Jaw-Dropping News About Minecraft for Thursday, July 14, 2011

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(4:02:33 PM) The Future of Minecraft – With its sales numbers still climbing, Minecraft is set to expand far beyond the confines of its PC home. At E3 2011 Microsoft announced an Xbox 360 version, and earlier this year we learned about in-development iOS and Android versions of Mojang's sandbox construction / survival / farming / player-versus-player / sheep-shearing video game... (This story continues here)
(3:18:32 PM) 'Minecraft,' 'Minecraft,' and more 'Minecraft': YouTube's most-viewed gaming videos – Clips from Minecraft made up more than half of the top ten gaming videos on YouTube, with League of Legends and Black Ops also featuring in June 7's weekly chart. (This story continues here)
(3:11:53 PM) Unofficial Minecraft port appears for Nintendo DS – Nintendo has managed to lock the 3DS up pretty tight from hackers and homebrew developers for the moment, but the Japanese company’s previous generation handheld the DS was a hive of homebrew development activity. In fact “was” is the wrong word as this latest project shows it still is a platform being targeted by indie [...] (This story continues here)
(3:46:14 PM) 3-D Printing and Minecraft - Together At Last – Longtime readers, and especially followers of my Twitter feed, know that I have a somewhat unhealthy obsession with the sandbox game Minecraft. Additionally, I've provided quite a bit of coverage here at this blog about the promises of 3-D Printing.So imagine my delight to learn that a group at the MIT Media Lab have combined these two great things. They've developed a project called Minecraft ... (This story continues here)
(4:02:13 PM) Minecraft "Adventure Update" Promises Big Things – Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson may not be revealing all of the nitty-gritty details about the next big patch just yet, but it's clear the so-called "Adventure Update" is shaping up to be a major game changer. With the core elements of the gameplay already locked-down, the Minecraft development team is now focusing on beefing up the content and giving players much more to do in the game ... (This story continues here)
(3:05:40 PM) Terraria Is a Better Game than Minecraft – Terraria is a better game than Minecraft. There's no denying Minecraft's success, or that Notch's creation is a fun, at times magical, playground; a world of LEGO without the risk of stepping on a sharp piece during a middle-of-the-night trip to the bathroom. Notch's success with Minecraft is well-deserved, but Terraria, the 2D, sprite-based game from tiny studio Re-Logic is a much more ... (This story continues here)
(2:50:54 PM) Minecraft Model Will be Used for Mojang's Next Game – Minecraft is much different from your average game -- it's essentially a sandbox world where you can create anything you want, and there have been some amazing things created from a Zelda adventure to a recreation of a Chrono Trigger area to A Link to the Past's world to Pokemon's Kanto to enormous holes to Earth ... you get the idea. (This story continues here)
(3:52:56 PM) Minecraft Surpasses 10 Million Registrations – Indie smash hit Minecraft has surpasse 10 million registered users, according to creator Markus "Notch" Persson, with over a quarter of those paying for the game. The 10 million free registration mark was surpassed Friday, according to official statistics. Of the 10,008,005 registered users recorded at press time, 2,675,185 -- nearly 27 percent -- have purchased the game. Minecraft surpassed one ... (This story continues here)
(3:29:29 PM) Five great games like Minecraft – Minecraft is a great game, but it’s not for everyone. Whether you just played as much of it as you can stand or you just dislike Minecraft in general but want a game with similar mechanics, you’re in luck. Here are five games like Minecraft that will scratch that same itch without forcing you to [...] (This story continues here)
(4:02:47 PM) Minecraft 1.7 is out, pistons and deadly sheep added to the mix – Minecraft 's latest world-expanding update has arrived, bringing with it the all new piston mechanism that should help add some motion to your intricately constructed Starship Enterprise model. As is customary, the patch also included an odd bug or two -- as evidenced by creator Markus Persson's somewhat ominous Tweet suggesting players "don't right click sheep with an empty hand." However ... (This story continues here)