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Minecraft Legends will test how resilient fans can be

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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The appetite for Minecraft seems pretty endless. Microsoft has to keep feeding fans with new content, and the latest thing coming in the portfolio is Minecraft Legends.

It’s a real-time action strategy game coming in 2023. I got a little preview of it out in Germany. During the recent Gamescom expo, I caught up with Minecraft Legends executive producer Dennis Ries and creative director Magnus Nedfors at Microsoft’s Mojang division.

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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.