GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
If you follow VentureBeat but don’t regularly check our GamesBeat site, here’s a list of the best games stories we ran over the last seven days that you may have missed.
Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is a successful port of an imperfect gem (review)
At $20, Minecraft is one of the most expensive Xbox Live Arcade games ever released, but it’s also one of the most substantial and definitely one of the most enjoyable.
Mojang talks Minecraft subscriptions, boycotting E3
Mojang, the Swedish developer of Minecraft, is considering introducing a subscription model to its block-centric building game and will bow out of next month's Electronic Entertainment Expo.
Portal’s test chambers created to scale in Minecraft (video)
In the wake of yesterday’s report on the Minecraft Game of Thrones recreation, it’s only fitting that today we find this stunning one-to-one scale...
Game of Thrones painstakingly recreated in Minecraft (video)
Some of the modern world’s most iconic institutions can be found in Minecraft: the Empire State building, a 1000:1 scale Monopoly board, the U.S.S....
Minecraft makes multimedia history with a novel-inspired adventure map
Storytellers and aspiring game designers have tapped into the nearly limitless narrative possibilities in Minecraft through downloadable adventure maps. Author Andrea Buchanan took this...
Mojang’s Minecraft hits 25m downloads, $80m in revenue
Minecraft, the hit indie open-sandbox game now coming to XBox 360 in May, has made over $80M since it’s beginnings as a company in...
Grand Cru raises $2M to build free-to-play Supernauts superhero game
Grand Cru is announcing today it has raised $2 million in seed funding to build an online adventure game called Supernauts. The company is entering a...
ZeniMax Media and Minecraft developer Mojang settle “Scrolls” lawsuit
It appears that video game publisher ZeniMax Media and Minecraft developer Mojang have kissed and made up. The two companies have reached a settlement...
Minecraft creator distributes nearly 3 million dollars to fellow employees
Minecraft creator Markus Persson, better known as Notch, distributed almost three million dollars in dividends to his fellow employees at Mojang, 25 in all....