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New texture pack makes Minecraft obnoxiously colorful

Posted byby Mike Minotti
March 24, 2015
1 min

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.

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Turkey is right: Minecraft can be extremely violent

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 11, 2015
2 min

Minecraft isn't as innocent as it seems.

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Turkey’s ‘family’ ministry wants to ban Minecraft — just like it did with 4Chan

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
March 10, 2015
3 min

Minecraft is one of the world's most successful games, but a Turkish family agency isn't happy about that.

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Here’s what’s new in Minecraft 1.8.2

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 19, 2015
1 min

You'll have to watch out for a lot more ocelots and squids.

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‘Star Wars: Rebels’ gets its own Minecraft skin pack

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 10, 2015
1 min

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.

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How John Carmack pestered Microsoft to let him make Minecraft for Gear VR

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 27, 2015
3 min

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...