Mojang’s 3 day game jam via humblebundle, which just ended a minute ago, has managed to raise almost $500k for charity. While it would be awesome to report that the charity was the Give Tim Schafer More Money to Make Psychonauts 2 Foundation, it isn’t. Those …
Despite Minecraft’s official release, there are still updates coming in. Snapshots released by Mojang allow people to test the unstable version of the update and report bugs and issues. I’ll point out the most important ones that are of interest to players. These are all from …
In December Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson posted on his blog that fellow Mojang developer Jens “Jeb” Bergensten would be taking over as lead developer of the successful sandbox building game, allowing Notch to focus on running the company he created from scratch. It seemed like …
In a surprising bit of news, the founder of Mojang and creator of Minecraft announced that he has stepped down as the lead developer of Minecraft, and the mantle has been handed to Jens Bergensten. The pair have worked on Minecraft for a year, and Notch …
A recent spat between Markus Persson of Mojang, also known as Notch, and the RPG developer Bethesda over the use of the trademark Scrolls has come to a current end. Notch’s twitter has announced that they won the interim injunction, meaning the Scrolls project can go …
Notch, Creator of Minecraft who is captioned as such more often than Catbert from Dilbert despite everyone knowing exactly who he is, has shown off a video of a new mob called the Enderdragon. If you’ve kept up with Minecraft, you will know that Endermen are …
In an act of complete and utter stupidity, Bethesda has begun their “really silly” lawsuit against Mojang claiming that Scrolls’ name infringes on their popular sandbox single-player RPG series The Elder Scrolls. In semi-related news, Thomas Biskup has sued an upcoming Roguelike for its game mechanics …
The adventure update that was in pre-release testing for a few days has now been cleaned up and officially released, and the changelog for the entire version is absolutely massive and I plan to report on every single one of them after the jump. This is …
Jeb of Mojang has done the unthinkable and released a version of Minecraft 1.8 early, it’s still buggy, but it works. I’ll have the install instructions at the end of this post. This isn’t malware, it’s a legit release by Mojang and Jeb himself has commented …
If you don’t know, Notch, creator of Minecraft, is working on a project called Scrolls. However, even if Scrolls is a generic word, there are very few games that use it, with 7 using Scroll and even less using Scrolls (Excluding the Elder Scrolls series) according …
On the Google+ account of Notch, creator of Minecraft, he has revealed a new mob, and a very creepy one at that. Their collective name is officially Endermen, singular Enderman, named after Slender Man after multiple users on Reddit and Google+ commented on the likeness. To …