Minecraft Marketplace July 2019: 10 million downloads and summer sale
The Minecraft Marketplace surpassed 10 million downloads once again in July. In total, the store had more 10,892,324 downloads for all of its content....
Minecraft Earth beta expands to Android
Microsoft and the Minecraft Team want to give Minecraft players a chance to try the franchise’s new AR game on Android. Minecraft Earth is...
Minecraft will support Nvidia’s real-time ray tracing RTX graphics
Nvidia announced that Microsoft’s Minecraft will be the latest game to support Nvidia’s real-time ray tracing graphics on the PC. The game is one...
Minecraft team puts Super Duper Graphics on blocks: It’s ‘too demanding’
The Minecraft Team at Microsoft has ended development of the previously promised Super Duper graphics pack. The team said that the visuals made the...
These Minecraft videos show off over 500 hours of demonstrations
Who knew Minecraft offered such a rich training ground for AI and machine learning algorithms? Earlier this month, Facebook researchers posited that the hit...
Minecraft Marketplace June 2019: Woody can retire from Toy Story now
Minecraft is coming off of one of its biggest months ever as it celebrated its 10-year anniversary. Microsoft’s Minecraft Team was able to maintain...
Facebook researchers propose an AI assistant for Minecraft
If you’ve ever wished Minecraft had an Alexa-like assistant that could perform any task asked of it, you’re in luck. Facebook researchers recently argued...
Minecraft Marketplace May 2019 report: 10th anniversary is golden
Minecraft is now 10 years old, and Microsoft held an anniversary event last month to celebrate. That included a free level that helped push...
How Microsoft showed up at E3, locked and loaded for games, a new console, and the cloud
Matt Booty, the head of Xbox Game Studios, may have overdone it when he started going shopping for game studios. The company showed up...
Minecraft: Dungeons gameplay debuts at E3 2019
The Minecraft Team showed off some new gameplay for its Minecraft: Dungeons action game. This adventure takes the blocky setting and applies it to...