For anyone not familiar with Minecraft, the basics are simple: Dive into the game, start farming materials, and create! You can design anything you can think of—you just might need to dig a bit deeper ...

My friends and I began a Minecraft server years ago as a way to hang out together and chat while we chopped down trees, dug holes, and explored this new realm. It was my first time truly delving into ...

The indie darling “Minecraft” has now forged its way onto consoles, giving those players a chance to see what all the fuss is about. To its credit, “Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition” is largely the same ...

For those of you who don't know what Minecraft is (you probably are having a great time under that rock), it is a sandbox game where players explore a free world that they generate through elaborate ...

Kids today are playing in a new kind of sandbox. A sandbox video game, that is. Minecraft, which has sold more than 20 million copies in four years, is labeled a sandbox game because it has virtually ...

As the Minecraft update 1.20 release date gets closer, developer Mojang unveils the latest new feature coming in its next major patch. Archeology seems like such a natural fit for Minecraft that we're ...

Yestrerday Microsoft announced it would acquire Mojang along with its massive Minecraft gaming franchise for $2.5 billion. By now we've all seen the coverage, including the gratuitous interviews with ...

Before Fortnite Creative was even conceived or dreamt of, Minecraft was the largest sandbox game to ever exist. The game launched in 2011 and has since undergone numerous transformations and ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Kurt Schlosser on Oct 16, 2019 at 1:29 pm October 16, 2019 at 2:27 ...

Episode 2 of the vault - An Underground Minecraft Series by Bricks 'O' Brian alive in the UNDERGROUND! After many survival ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. After the success of Minecraft, anything connected with the people at Mojang is going to get a lot of attention. And that is the case for Cobalt--a ...

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