Microsoft on Minecon and Minecraft: ‘We want to listen, learn, and be inspired’
Minecon remains Mojang's show despite Microsoft taking over the company.
New texture pack makes Minecraft obnoxiously colorful
The Pattern Texture Pack is available today for all console versions of the popular block-building game. It adds colorful, bright patterns and new, knitted-looking animals. You can apply the textures to old or new Minecraft worlds. The pack cost $1.
Turkey’s ‘family’ ministry wants to ban Minecraft — just like it did with 4Chan
Minecraft is one of the world's most successful games, but a Turkish family agency isn't happy about that.
‘Star Wars: Rebels’ gets its own Minecraft skin pack
Microsoft bought Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion last September. Although the game is available for other platforms, including rival Sony’s PlayStation 4, exclusive content like this for Microsoft’s consoles is a benefit of the acquisition.
How John Carmack pestered Microsoft to let him make Minecraft for Gear VR
Oculus VR chief technology officer John Carmack was desperate to get the block-building open-world game Minecraft into virtual reality, but it took a lot of...
Minecraft is building blocky stacks of cash for Microsoft
The Xbox company reports a 79 percent increase in first-party game sales.
Minecraft’s Ender Dragon boss gets a makeover for update 1.9
A Mojang developer says he has "plans" for what many consider the end-game boss of Minecraft.
Minecraft fans, get ready: Mojang COO tweets that MineCon news is coming ‘soon’
Minecraft fans, your suffering is almost at an end. For today, for it appears that an announcement about the next MineCon is at hand.