Minecraft’s Xbox 360 developer 4J has revealed more staggering numbers for the indie hit’s console effort. Speaking on Twitter, a studio rep announced the port has surpassed 4m units sold in its first five months. The total figure averages out to around 27,000 copies sold a day. Last we heard, …
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Four million copies of Xbox 360 version sold in five months
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Mojang's 'Block by Block' program empowers urban development
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Minecraft developer Mojang has announced the Block by Block program, an initiative in partnership with the UN to encourage youth to join in the planning process of building local environments. The development studio explains the collaboration on its blog as similar to the program implemented in Sweden. A reconstruction of …
Read More »Schafer/Wolpaw: Minecraft, DayZ experiences nail the promise of games
Veteran game writers Erik Wolpaw and Tim Schafer believe titles that push player-driven experiences such as Minecraft and DayZ are the future of the general gaming medium. Speaking at a panel in Seattle over the weekend (and passed on by Kotaku), the pair waxed poetic on what the two titles …
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Read More »Minecraft XBLA hits 3.6m copies sold
Mojang has announced the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft has sold 3.6m copies since its May launch. "Was really surprised to see that 3.6 million people have now purchased Minecraft for Xbox," Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan wrote on Twitter. Add to that over 7m sold on PC (as of earlier this …
Read More »Minecraft PC exceeds 7m copies sold, major 360 update in the works
Mojang’s smash hit Minecraft has eclipsed the 7m mark for units sold on its original platform alone. The PC sales figure is just the latest in a string of significant milestones for the title, which smashed XBLA records when it debuted on the 360 earlier this year. More than 7 …
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Wildly popular indie game reaches another milestone in just three months
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Mojang expecting to more than double profits from last year, says studio MD Carl Manneh
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