Page 10 - Minecraft Earth News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Image via Mojang After it was made clear that Minecraft’s new Caves & Cliffs update was split into two separate parts, a lot of things began to change behind the scenes. The weekly snapshots were mixed with a special add-on, and the new content in the actual snapshots themselves began winding down. It was long before it was most just bug fixes, and little to no major changes. That is because the first part of the Caves & Cliffs major update is coming very soon! Minecraft: Caves & Cliffs Part 1 is launching on June 8. It is for both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition. This means it will be ava...

Minecraft is the biggest success story to date for indie games, where its sandbox allowed infinite possibilities for its players. With over 200 million copies sold, it's the highest selling game of all time. So when Microsoft acquired the game and developer Mojang in 2014 for $2.5 billion -- the most expensive video game studio acquisition at the time -- it sent shockwaves for not just the players and the studio but through the whole games industry. Head of Minecraft Helen Chiang was only too aware what was going through people's heads at this news, as she charted this seismic shift in the fr...

Xbox Is Absolutely Killing It For Microsoft Share Image: Alex Walker (Kotaku Australia) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A massive conglomerate just announced their quarterly results, and their headline gaming platform — in this case, Xbox — is making an absolute killing. There’s no part of Microsoft that isn’t enjoying a bit of ...

Source: Microsoft | Mojang Studios The tale of Mojang Studios is of irrefutable success in the competitive games industry. Founded in 2009, the then-Mojang broke the scene with Minecraft, a game that combined unique visuals with limitless creative potential and accessible survival mechanics. of all time. Years of constant support, evolutionary updates, and a simple gameplay structure that can appeal to gamers of all ages and expertise have solidified Minecraft's position on top of the game world. Why does Mojang Studios still feel like an underfunded indie studio? Mojang Studios, too, has evo...

Picked by Techconnect's Editors I am very skeptical about Microsoft Mesh, the company’s new virtual-reality platform, and you should be, too. Microsoft's last attempt at virtual reality, the HoloLens headset,  was introduced with a flourish before largely melting away. The signs so far for Mesh suggest a similarly concerning pattern. Beyond that, we have to ask, do meeting participants event  want to mingle in virtual spaces? Microsoft Mesh was announced Tuesday morning at the company’s Ignite conference—an event taking place via Microsoft Teams and YouTube because of the pandemic. ...