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Minecraft on Xbox 360 update: new character skins, new tools, and safer TNT

Posted byby GamesBeat
July 12, 2012
2 min

Minecraft on Xbox 360 likely won't ever be as full-featured as the PC original, but the new 1.7.3 update scheduled for July 13 will add new items, better textures, and character selection.

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Minecraft nether cheats achievement guide

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Minecraft (Xbox 360 Edition): Tips, tricks, and achievement guide

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 13, 2012
7 min

Welcome to GamesBeat’s Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition guide. Below you’ll find information on how to unlock all of the game’s achievements, as well as...

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GamesBeat Weekly Roundup

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 11, 2012
2 min

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.

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Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition is a successful port of an imperfect gem (review)

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 10, 2012
5 min

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.

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Mojang talks Minecraft subscriptions, boycotting E3

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 8, 2012
2 min

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.

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Portal’s test chambers created to scale in Minecraft (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 6, 2012
1 min

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...

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Game of Thrones painstakingly recreated in Minecraft (video)

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 5, 2012
1 min

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....

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Minecraft makes multimedia history with a novel-inspired adventure map

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 27, 2012
2 min

Storytellers and aspiring game designers have tapped into the nearly limitless narrative possibilities in Minecraft through downloadable adventure maps. Author Andrea Buchanan took this...

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Mojang’s Minecraft hits 25m downloads, $80m in revenue

Posted byby GamesBeat
March 26, 2012
2 min

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...

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Grand Cru raises $2M to build free-to-play Supernauts superhero game

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 20, 2012
3 min

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...

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