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Another Minecraft killer? 505 Games unveils sandbox adventure Portal Knights

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Everybody is chasing Minecraft. The latest is 505 Games, the Italian video game publisher that is unveiling its Portal Knights sandbox adventure today.

The new intellectual property is a single-player and multiplayer game where you can build things and fight monsters in a cute, endless fantasy setting. It’s a crafting-focused action-role-playing game being built by Keen Games of Frankfurt, Germany. With Microsoft buying Minecraft game studio Mojang for $2.5 billion in 2014, and the block-building game luring millions of players on home console, PC, and mobile, publishers are eager to tap into this lucrative player base.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.