Minecon 2012 tickets went on sale recently, but quickly became unavailable.  Some estimates suggest that the available tickets were sold out within two hours of going live.  So, what are the rest of us interested in going to Minecon left to do?  Tobias Mollstam to the rescue!

That's right, on Tuesday, September 18th at 5:00 pm (17:00) CEST, a NEW batch of Minecon 2012 tickets will be available for purchase!  It's not too late to secure your place at Minecon 2012 this year, so be sure to buy your tickets once they become available - they won't last long!

Minecon 2012 will be taking place from November 24th through November 25th, 2012, in beautiful Paris, France.  Every attendee will get a chance to mingle with other Minecrafters, see notable personalities from the Minecraft community - including modders, YouTube video and series makers, and many more - and the ever-awesome Mojang team!  Are you ready to hang out at the most awesome Minecraft convention yet?  If so, click the banner above (or this link), get your tickets - we'll see you there!

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MCX360 1.8.2 Teasers - Food!

4J Studios gives us a look at another awesome feature in the 1.8.2 update for MCX360 (coming soon): more food types!  It won't be quite as dangerous to go Endermen hunting with your trusty steak in hand - check it out!

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Pico brings us our weekly gaming news! Endermen and Blue Cave Spiders come to XBox 360, the November 18th launch of the WiiU, Guild Wars 2 for hitting the mark of 2 million copies sold, Steam Greenlight games of note, Terraria comes to XBLA and PSN, and the arrival of the NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660 and 650 - take a look! Back to Top

Player Skulls?

Many things have been revealed in recent Snapshots, from a new monster, to decorative stone fences, and the awesome beacon block.  Something that's been drawing a lot of attention lately is decorative heads - such as the skeleton, creeper, and zombie - which can be placed like a sign, to gloat over victories achieved in combat.  Recently, Dinnerbone posted the picture above, strongly suggesting the possibility of player-dropped heads.

Will they fall in combat?  Can they only be added for adventure maps?  Time will tell.

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MCX360 1.8.2 Update on the Horizon

4J Studios released this video, showing off a number of features in the upcoming 1.8.2 update.  Some of the included goodies are Endermen, Silverfish, and more.  Check out the video above for the awesome teaser!

1.8.2 does not currently have a known release date; however, 4J commented that they will let players know as soon as it is submitted.  Keep an eye out!

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Pocket Edition on Amazon?

Android owners will be pleased to know that they can now get Minecraft - Pocket Edition on Amazon!  Pocket Edition can be purchased from the online vendor at $6.99 USD, so if you haven't yet grabbed a portable copy of your favorite sandbox game, now is the time!

Pocket Edition continues to receive exciting updates of its own, having recently included creepers (among other things) in the ever-growing hand-held title.  What exciting developments await?  We will keep you posted.

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Minecraft Weekly News - Pie, Fishing XP & Customized Superflat Worlds!

David and Toby give us the rundown of last week's events, including a solid look at last weeks Snapshot - give it a watch! Back to Top

MCX360 in the Golden Joystick Awards

MCX360 is incredibly popular. How popular, you ask?  Well, it's become big enough to attract nomination votes for the Golden Joystick Award's "Best Downloadable Game" category this year!  There are millions of players enjoying the smash-hit XBLA sandbox port, and they are showing a strong support of the game in this year's vote!

Want to vote for MCX360, and make sure it wins a title this year?  Click on the link below, then click on the game, and vote!

Click here, vote for Minecraft: 360 Edition

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MineTV, and the Weekly Round-Up

Don't forget, we're having an episode of MineTV tonight!  All the details can be found by clicking here.

Be sure to check out this week's Round-Up, where Pico talks about Nintendo Power closing shop, Guild Wars 2 releasing, plus swag, a massive WoW tournament, "Iron Sky", MineTV, and this years Curse PAX party! Back to Top

1.3.2 Update Later This Week - Preview it Now

Later this week, on Thursday, August 16th, the 1.3.2 update will be going live! It mainly contains bugfixes (fixed the falling-out-of-Nether bug, fixed the random-suffocation-damage bug, various uncommon crash bugs). However, if you would like to get the pre-release to update your server, mod or even just to get an early look at it, the download links are below. This is the same version that will be released on Thursday via the normal Minecraft launcher!

Client: Download

Server: Download

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MineTV Episode 3, now with 100% More Pahimar

We've been hard at work getting the MineTV set ready for 1.3 - this week's guest is "Equivalent Exchange" mod maintainer (and EE3 author) Pahimar! We are making some changes with how the show runs, including a longer running time (so our guest isn't so rushed), more live events, audience-interactive games, and more!

TO BE A PART OF THE STUDIO AUDIENCE

There are some special requirements you must meet this week:

• Minecraft Client 1.2.5 (You can use MCNostalgia to go back to patch 1.2.5)
• Equivalent Exchange 1.4.6.5 (Click here to go to the thread - Remember, it's build 1.4.6.5)
• Apply for the whitelist by clicking here

You are welcome to come test your client at "killion.evolutiongaming.org:1337", to make sure your mod is working properly.

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MCX360, Pocket Edition Continue to Set Records

MCX360 is insanely popular, that much people know by now. It continues to hold a dominant position on the charts for Live Arcade, and the number of XBLA Minecrafters grows by the day. Have you ever wondered how much they are growing? The number is staggering - MCX360 sells, on average, 17,000 copies a day! That's right, nearly seventeen thousand new Minecrafters come to Live Arcade, every single day.

If that wasn't enough, Pocket Edition has maintained a rather impressive lead of its own, as the #1 top selling app, according to Google Play. All said, Minecraft has - between the PC, console and handheld markets - sold well over 12 million copies, and continues to grow daily! With the recent release of 1.3.1 (and the future release of 1.4), the PC-based Minecraft playerbase is set to grow ever-larger, with tons of customization options, mods that are easier to make and maintain, adventure map-specific features, and so much more.

A question that seems to come up often is, "where can Minecraft really go from here?" Well, every single update, we see it go in new, exciting directions. Keep an eye out - you never know where Minecraft will go next!

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That's right, the 1.7.3 Bugfix Update is hitting the 360 right now! While it could be a few hours or more before it can be applied to all copies of MCX360, it is now in the system, and shouldn't take more than 24 hours to become available to everyone.

The list of updates includes, but is not limited to:

• Fix for a crash with pistons at the edge of the world
• Fix for a crash due to a thread safety issue usually caused by pistons
• Fix for issue with operating pistons on chunk boundaries
• Fix for a rendering flicker with active pistons
• Fix for rendering slowdown due to lighting issues
• Fix for rain going through blocks (raining indoors)
• Fix for Marketplace not launching when unlocking skin pack after selecting a locked skin in the trial version of the skin pack
• Fix for bug allowing locked skins to be selected if they are beside a free skin
• Fix for misaligned player scores when viewed under the "My Score" leaderboard filter
• Fix for the constant button press sounds when rotating a character in the skin select screen
• Fix for the constant sound effect played on the sign text entry
• Fix for thunder not being audible
• Fix for third person front view not displaying fire.

You can see the full list of updates and fixes by clicking on the link below!

Update and fix list: Click here Back to Top

You heard right, there is a bugfix title update coming for MCX360!  In addition to a massive list of fixes, the update boasts the following changes:

Fixes:

• Fix for a crash with pistons at the edge of the world
  
• Fix for a crash due to a thread safety issue usually caused by pistons
  
• Fix for issue with operating pistons on chunk boundaries
  
• Fix for a rendering flicker with active pistons
  
• Fix for rendering slowdown due to lighting issues
  
• Fix for rain going through blocks (raining indoors)
  
• Fix for Marketplace not launching when unlocking skin pack after selecting a locked skin in the trial version of the skin pack
  
• Fix for bug allowing locked skins to be selected if they are beside a free skin
  
• Fix for misaligned player scores when viewed under the "My Score" leaderboard filter
  
• Fix for the constant button press sounds when rotating a character in the skin select screen
  
• Fix for the constant sound effect played on the sign text entry
  
• Fix for thunder not being audible
  
• Fix for third person front view not displaying fire.

Want to know more?  Check out 4J's post on the update at the link below!

4J update thread for Minecraft: 360 Edition:  Click here Back to Top

MCX360 continues to dominate Xbox Live Arcade, recently surpassing over 3 million sales! Combined with the Pocket Edition (over 2 million sold), and the ever-popular, original PC Minecraft (weighing in at over 6.6 million sales), Minecraft has sold over 12 million copies, worldwide!

If that wasn't enough to be excited about, there's more good news! According to Major Nelson, MCX360 continues to hold the #2 spot for top titles (based on unique users), beating out games like FIFA 12, TES: Skyrim, Battlefield 3, and Halo: Reach, just to name a few. In many ways, this accurately reflects one of the best aspects of Minecraft - the community that brings it alive. With numerous servers, mini-games, amazing architecture and incredible maps, millions of Minecrafters give life to a unique community all their own.

Congratulations to Mojang for the amazing sales milestone, and to everyone out there in the Minecraft community for making it what it is today!

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MCX360 has been updated with all kinds of goodies! What has been added? What fixes have been implemented? Check out the full list below!

Features:

• Added Pistons & Sticky Pistons.
• Added Stackable fences.
• Added Shears – required to get wool from sheep, and to collect leaf blocks.
• TNT needs Flint and Steel or Redstone to detonate.
• Redstone wire will now connect to a repeater.
• New textures for Cobblestone and Brick.
• Added Character Skin Selector to allow players to choose their skin from the default skins, or from Downloadable Content skin packs.
• Added lighting improvements (brought forward from 1.8.2 update) and snow & rain improvements.
• Added a save file cache to improve the speed of displaying the saves list.
• Added ban list functionality to allow players to self
• ban from levels they feel contain offensive content.
• Added a ban list section to the How To Play menus.
• Added an option for the host to limit online games to only players in their friends list (no friends of friends).
• Added a seed display to the level load screen (requires existing levels to be saved out again to add the display).
• Changed the tooltip display setting to in
• game tooltip display, so that tooltips always display in menus.
• Added the crosshair to the list of things affected by the opacity slider.
• On using the quickselect bar, the opacity of the quickselect, tooltips, splitscreen gamertag display, and crosshair will be set to 80,and will fade back down to the user opacity setting after 6 seconds of no quickselect bar use.
• Added some more Tips & Trivia to the loading/saving screen display.

Tutorial World changes & additions:

• Added optional tutorial for Pistons and Redstone.
• Added a self
• building bridge to the castle using Pistons.
• Added some sugar cane, cactii and clay to the world.
• Added a few other things for players to discover.

Fixes:

• Fix for only the host being shown the pop-up when any player attempts to place lava near the spawn point.
• Fixed tooltip for Flint and Steel.
• Fix for Note blocks not showing notes.
• Fix for Leaderboard reads taking too long.
• Fix to block players re-entering a level they have been kicked from, until the level is restarted.
• Fix to stop players being able to join a game when they are not a friend of any player in the game.
• Fix for Netherracks re-appearing after being mined.
• Fix for a rare crash on entering the Nether.
• Fix for attacking enemies at a different level not damaging them.
• Fixed a problem causing some save games not to load.
• Removed Herobrine.

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More MCX360 Skins Revealed!

Curious to see more custom MCX360 skins? Here's some more from the new customizable skins set: Jack of Blades, Clayton Carmine, Banjo, Prisoner, and Ms ‘Splosion! Many more skins are on the horizon for the console community, so be sure to keep an eye out for them!

MCX360 has passed some pretty serious landmarks in the short time it's been available - first released in Alpha on the PC in 2009, what began as a simple world-builder quickly grew into an incredibly diverse game, officially launching in November of 2011. The indie smash title was brought over to XBLA by 4J Studios, in conjunction with Mojang and Microsoft. The sandbox port blew past the "one million sales" mark on May 14, with players having dedicated in excess of 5 million hours into the lovable block builder. What unique challenges, features and direction await the popular console port? We will keep you updated as it develops!

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Free "Guild Wars 2" Beta Keys?

Guild Wars 2 is on the horizon, and we have some exciting news! We received 50,000 Guild Wars 2 beta keys (25,000 for North America, and 25,000 for Europe) for ArenaNet's final beta weekend, scheduled July 20-22. We will be giving out our keys - free! - from July 9th through July 11th. On July 9th, only Curse Premium members will be able to get beta keys; however, we will open up the giveaway to everyone on the 10th. Premium members get first shot at the codes, in addition to the usual benefits of Premium - an ad-free experience, Premium giveaways, discount programs, and more! Keep in mind, these keys will become available for anyone - Premium or not - to obtain on July 10th.

Do you live in North America? Click here to enter!

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MCX360 Updates On the Horizon

4J Studios reports that the 1.7.3 Update for MCX360 is going into Microsoft Cert Test today! It can take up to 10 days for this testing to be completed; once this process is done, the game should update normally. There are a number of exciting changes on the horizon for this latest iteration of the popular console sandbox title, up to and including - drumroll, please - custom skins!

Yes, it will soon be possible to be more than just a different flavor of Steve - new skins include: Creeper Man, 'Splosion Man, Trials Man, Covenant Grunt, and King! Of course, other skins will be available (40 total!), with even more to come later on; this is just a sampling of what's on offer.

I personally plan to walk around as a creeper all day. It's strangely fitting, given my penchant for explosions.

Scrolls Alpha Launching Soon?

Scrolls has been in development for some time, and CCG fans are clamoring to get their hands on it! How soon is "soon", though? How about tomorrow? Jakob Porser - lead developer for Scrolls - recently revealed that the Scrolls Alpha might be available as early as tomorrow, July 4th! Want to know more about the newest addition to the Mojang game library? If so, you're in luck - we had an exciting opportunity to interview Jakob about Scrolls in depth! What sort of features can be expected in the game? What is the setting lore like? How do the mechanics, deck building and combat work? You can see the full interview on the new, official Scrolls forum! Just click the link below for all things Scrolls, we can't wait to see you there!

Scrolls Fans - click here!

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League of Legends Fan?

Do you play (or follow) League of Legends? Check out our LoL events - we evict the CEO from his home to get some practice in for the PAX Prime qualifier, and make preparations to stream the entire event! Want to know more? Click this link for details!

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Digital Diamond - The Arcan Chronicles

Meet Kael, a twelve year old boy from the capital city of Halcylon. Sent off to spend the summer with a distant uncle, he arrives in Woodvale expecting only boredom but is instead sent flying into a fast-paced adventure with new found friends and foes. And so, it begins... Back to Top