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When Minecraft hit Microsoft’s game console a few weeks ago, it was readily apparent that the 360 version of Mojang’s popular hit wasn’t going to have quite everything that the original PC game does. But, in true Minecraft fashion, future updates promise to make the game’s sandbox more complex and more creative.
Yesterday, the website MCV reported that Mojang was boycotting E3 due to the ESA’s support of SOPA, the Stop Online Patriot Act.
People have made all sorts of things in Minecraft. Just recently, we’ve seen cities from both Game of Thrones, and Final Fantasy VII.
I can’t tell if the fan-made trailer for 0x10c — the upcoming game from Markus ‘Notch’ Person — is supposed to be tongue-in-cheek or deadly serious. The stentorian narration just about screams “irony” but the events setting up Mojang’s next game are nothing to laugh at.
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.
Alright, it may be a Monday, but it’s still April Fools’ Day over here, a very special day in video gaming. Many related companies, studios and merchants are pulling hoaxes and stunts, and making gag announcements. So let’s round up as many as we can here!
A couple weeks back, Markus “Notch” Persson said he wanted to explore the possibility of a space-trading Firefly-inspired sandbox game akin to Firefly. It now appears that was a huge put-on.
It hasn’t been downloaded nearly as much, but the $US80 million in revenues that Minecraft has delivered to Mojang compares well to the $US100 million its Scandinavian neighbours Rovio have pulled in from Angry Birds. And that figure looks to get larger once the game arrives on Xbox Live Arcade in May.
