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Proof kids don't give a damn about bad reviews.

Despite a rather pathetic 48% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, A Minecraft Movie demolished box office records for a video game film adaptation. This weekend, A Minecraft movie pulled in a massive $157 million at the domestic box office and another $144 million at the global box office.

A Minecraft Movie surpassed The Super Mario Bros. Movie for the biggest domestic debut for a video game adaptation. The Super Mario Bros. Movie...

I... am Steve.

The first official first look at A Minecraft Movie was shared online today. This is the upcoming live-action film adaptation of Minecraft and stars Jason Momoa, Jack Black, Emma Myers, Danielle Brooks, Sebastian Eugene Hansen, and Jennifer Coolidge.

The movie looks to be... something. The Minecraft Movie will be in theaters on April 4, 2025. ...

The guy that starred in a TV commercial for Pitfall is set to take on another iconic gaming role.

Jack Black is no stranger to the world of video games. His career started back in 1982 when he appeared in a television commercial for Pitfall. Black voiced the main character in the Double Fine Productions game Brutal Legend. Brutal Legend also included the song "The Metal" which is a song by Black and his rock partner Kyle Gass, better known together as Tenacious D.
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The Minecraft developer no longer feels Reddit is an "appropriate place" to post official content to.

At over 7.3 million subscribers, r/Minecraft is among the largest game-specific communities on Reddit. Minecraft developer Mojang, like many other game developers, often used Reddit as a means of sharing new information with their community. All of that is now coming to an end, according to statements shared by Mojang.

Mojang's Java technical lead for Minecraft,...

The deal will bring some titles to Nintendo platforms and Nvidia's streaming services.

Microsoft has agreed to a 10-year deal that will bring Xbox titles to Nvidia's cloud streaming services and to Nintendo platforms. This is being done in an effort to appease antitrust regulators that still feel as though Microsoft's $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard would lead to anti-competitive behavior or even a monopoly.

In the deal with Nvidia, games like Minecraft...

The new cherry blossom biome is coming in 1.20.

Mojang reveals that a new biome is coming soon to Minecraft. When the 1.20 update releases for the ever-popular game, a new cherry blossom biome will be added. This update is currently set to arrive "soon" for beta snapshot releases for both Java and Bedrock.

As the biome name implies, the cherry blossom biome will be filled with cherry blossom trees. These pretty pink trees will be home to a number of mobs and...

Minecraft is a Java-based sandbox video game developed by Markus "Notch" Persson and managed by Mojang AB as a division of Microsoft Studios. A player in Minecraft may navigate, interface with, and alter an interactively created map consisting of one-cubic-meter-shaped bricks. Crafting is a technique in gameplay where users construct new objects by assembling materials according to particular procedures. Diamonds are employed to manufacture several of Minecraft's most valuable objects, such as dia...

The new system will let players report chat messages in multiplayer games, even in private servers.

A new user reporting system was just added to a pre-release build of Minecraft that has large swaths of the community crying foul. As part of this week's 1.19.1 update to Minecraft, this new reporting system allows players both on private, self-hosted servers and Mojang-hosted servers to flag inappropriate chat messages. These messages will then, allegedly, be reviewed by Mojang and...

Minecraft continues to branch out into other genres and games.

Mojang is no stranger to trying new things with the Minecraft franchise. There are novels, children's books, merchandise, and all matter of games. In 2020, Mojang released Minecraft Dungeons which brought some Diablo-style dungeon crawling to fans and was a release that seems to have been well-received by players and critics alike.

This past week, Mojang revealed another new entry in the Minecraft franchise....

You can still play each version separately.

The tale of the two separate versions of Minecraft on PC is an odd one. A while back, if you had purchased the Java version of Minecraft prior to October 19, 2018, you were able to claim a free copy of the non-Java built Bedrock Edition for free. All you had to do was tie your existing Mojang account to your Microsoft account.

If you didn't own the game prior to that 2018 cutoff date, you could still get Minecraft, but you apparently...

Head too round. 0/5.

Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa, is in final negotiations to star in the live-action Minecraft film that is being worked on at Warner Bros. According to a report by The Hollywood Reporter, this film is set to be directed by Jared Hess, the director that brought us films such as Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre.

If Momoa joins the project, he will once again be working with Dune producers Mary Parent and Roy Lee. Minecraft will be executive produced by...

Metaverse (noun): A VR space in which users can interact with a computer-generated environment and other users.

Apparently Mark Zuckerberg isn't the only one looking to get into this whole "metaverse" thing. Microsoft just announced a metaverse for meetings via Microsoft Teams. The company doesn't plan to stop there, however, as they're also looking to expand into gaming-focused metaverses with Xbox.

In speaking with Bloomberg TV, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella...

Just don't expect to see any new games.

Courtesy of the Xbox Wire, Microsoft announced that they will hold a special Xbox Anniversary Celebration on November 15 at 1PM (ET). This event will celebrate 20 years of the Xbox brand being around. It's not really clear what Microsoft will show during this event, but we do know that they won't be showing off any new games at least.

The company says specifically that "we won't show any new games." Just so we're totally...

A new, friendly mob was voted by the fans to become the next Minecraft addition.

Minecraft fans recently cast their votes to select a new mob that will be added to the game. This year's winner is Allay, a blue, flying spirit that will collect items for the player. Not only that, but Allay apparently loves to dance if there are active music blocks nearby.

Allay won the vote during this year's Minecraft Live event and was announced via Twitter. It was going up against two...

How well can a block do a spin dash?

Despite what one mentally stunted individual might be saying on Twitter these days, Minecraft is very much alive and doing quite well for itself. In fact, the game has never been more popular. It's also now the only place where you will be able to celebrate Sonic the Hedgehog's 30th anniversary in style (since Sega themselves won't have anything new until 2022).

Mojang and Sega have partnered up to create a special piece of Sonic themed...