Noxcrew is a full game studio making content for Minecraft Marketplace
Minecraft’s Marketplace is growing fast enough that it has enabled several creators to focus on the platform as their full-time work. The Noxcrew team,...
February 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: city life and teens
February saw a huge jump in downloads in the Minecraft Marketplace. Players on PC, mobile, and Xbox consoles downloaded 372,509 pieces of content from...
PureBDcraft’s four-year journey onto the Minecraft Marketplace
Since I started covering the Minecraft Marketplace, one thing I’ve learned is that many of the community creators have spent years working on their...
January 2018’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: castles and the Wild West
Minecraft players downloaded 239,062 pieces of content from the Minecraft Marketplace in January. The marketplace is available in the unified Bedrock version of Minecraft...
How a love for Minecraft can blossom into a love for reading
Millions of kids around the world play Minecraft, and it didn’t take long for adults to notice something: It has educational value. With Microsoft’s...
Blockception cofounder explains how to make a living from Minecraft’s Marketplace
I like learning about new jobs that didn’t exist a generation ago (or even a year ago). Part of that is because I have...
Why Microsoft knows it needs to beef up its Xbox leadership
Microsoft announced today that Phil Spencer has appointed a new boss of games to handle the role that the executive had previously handled as...
December 2017’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations: Blockception repeats at No. 1
Minecraft is the best example of Microsoft’s modern approach to gaming platforms. The publisher acquired the block-building phenomenon and developer Mojang in 2014 for $2.5...
November 2017’s top 10 Minecraft Marketplace creations
Minecraft is more than a game. It’s a cultural force and a living service. Microsoft, which bought the block-building exploration adventure and its studio...
Discord launches verified servers for Minecraft, Squad, and more
Discord hosts dozens of Minecraft-related communities on its service, but it wants to give you an easy way to tell if you’re joining the Minecraft community....