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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Microsoft press release today: “Microsoft today announced that Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, the console adaptation of the hugely popular PC game developed by Mojang, has broken all previous digital sales records, selling more than any other title in the first 24 hours on Xbox LIVE Arcade.” [That's an excerpt.]
If we are going to tell you about when one of the most influential game developers in the world calls one big video game company a ‘bunch of cynical bastards‘, (presumably due to them labelling a bundle of games they published as “indie”) we ought to tell you about a company he likes, too.
Stare closely at the prototype title screen of 0x10c, the new game from Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft. You might need to adjust your brightness settings.
The man who made the grand, open-ended Minecraft appears to want to go bigger with his next game. Markus “Notch” Persson and his team at Mojang have launched an official website for the new game — which is called “0x10c” — and Notch’s plans make Minecraft seem paltry.
A Tweeted offer to back a sequel to Tim Schafer’s cult favourite Psychonauts was “a semi-joke,” said Markus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft and a guy who’s not hard up for cash in light of that game’s success. Notch rattled off a host of reasons why we shouldn’t get our hopes up, especially the cost of the project.
Tim Schafer’s Psychonauts is practically synonymous with the phenomenon of great, under-appreciated games. It didn’t set the world on fire with massive sales when it came out years ago but has gone one to become a cult favourite, with a Mac release happening late last year.
