Most of us have seen fake Twitter accounts of real celebrities or important people that poke fun at them or their profession. The petermolydeux account for example is a parody of the real British game designer Peter Molyneux, and is full of all sorts of Molyneux-like …
Combining Humble Bundle and another Game Jam, Mojang is once again using everyone’s favorite indie game distribution service to make some games and raise some cash. If you remember it was only a few weeks ago that the now defunct THQ raised $5 Million selling off …
I needed a couple of laughs on yet another cold and rainy November day and I found some thanks to Robot Chicken’s rendition of Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale. Now, I don’t own a PS3, but if I did I would be pretty psyched about a game …
Since Notch announced his “space game,” 0x10c, a few months back we haven’t really heard that much about the project. Fear not however, as promised he has been working on it, releasing a video of the progress he’s made on the game’s engine so far. It doesn’t look …
Before today I didn’t think it was possible to hear about the cancellation of a game that I never knew about, but Mojang managed to prove me wrong. Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft and head of Mojang, revealed today that his company had been …
Okay that sounds weird, but let me explain this a little. Notch commented in the past that the code of Minecraft would have been much cleaner and more friendly to work with if he had coded it purely as a multiplayer game, and having singleplayer be …
Since asserting their global dominance with Minecraft, Notch and the team at Mojang have decided to set their sights on something bigger – the galaxy. So far there aren’t many details, but since Notch has said that the inspiration for the game is the cult hit …
It looks like Mojang and Bethesda have settled their differences over the title of Mojang’s new game “Scrolls.” Back in August, Bethesda’s legal team sent Mojang a 15 page letter advising them that their name of their new game “Scrolls” infringed on Bethesda’s trademarked “Elder Scrolls,” …
Anyone who has spent some time with Minecraft’s PC version knows how much content is created by the community; endless skins and texture packs, tons of mods, and enough servers to keep you busy, well forever, essentially. Without the community’s content the PC Minecraft experience would …
Jeb, the current programmer of Minecraft, has been hard at work with the snapshots which I wrote about fairly recently. Now, the full-fledged (hopefully) bug-free update has been released. angering mod programmers across the globe as their hard work becomes unusable until they decide to update …
It appears as though Minecraft’s multiplayer is about to get some much needed support from those who are already unofficially do it. Mojang announced today that Bukkit developers Warren Loo, Erik Broes, Nathan Adams, and Nathan Gilbert have been hired to “offer better official support for …
