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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 hip, small-time boutique publishing label Electronic Arts revealed its “Indie Bundle” yesterday — curiously for sale over Steam and not Origin, and there was a passionate response from many observers of the video game artistic community. Including Markus “Notch” Persson, better known as the creator of uber-indie hit Minecraft.
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.
Marcus “Notch” Persson, the creator of Minecraft, is working on something new. It’s called 0×10.cc, and is a sci-fi game that’s got some neat ideas, promising things like working computers and the ability to “seamlessly [land] on planets”.
Hat connoisseur (and creator of Minecraft) Marcus ‘Notch’ Persson has been challenged to a showdown by someone who is distributing copies of the runaway smash, Minecraft for free.
Minecraft creator Markus “Notch Persson” has been tweeting all sorts of details about his upcoming space simulator, the oddly titled 0x10c.
