Youtuber CaptainSparklez brings us a parody of Usher's DJ Got Us Fallin' In Love, with a decidedly humorous Minecraft twist! Clever fight (and dance) choreography, diamond mining, creepers and more await! Give it a look!

Notch is, at this very moment, participating in the Ludum Dare, live! This challege is a regular accelerated game development Event. Participants develop games from scratch in a weekend, based on a theme suggested by community. This contest's theme is "escape".

Watch Notch live!

PAX is coming up fast, so we've been paying some attention to Penny Arcade. Evidently, they have been following the Bethesda lawsuit as well. It seems they see no small amount of humor in the situation, even offering a tongue-in-cheek resolution of their own.


In addition - Mojang is offering indie developers a chance for some exposure at MineCon, by providing a space and opportunity to demonstrate their games on the main exhibition floor! Any indie developers interested in this opportunity can fill out this form.

The Minecraft Wiki team has been hard at work improving the wiki and making it available to a larger audience, and part of that is now complete as of today.

The wiki is now available in two new languages: Chinese and Korean. This has been an extensive project, and the team is very excited to offer localized content for Minecraft players in those regions. The new localizations join the eight previous languages the wiki is available in: English, Dutch, French, German, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, and Spanish.

This is just the start, as the team is still working on even more localized versions of the wiki, including Greek, Portuguese (Brazilian) and Hebrew.

Stay tuned for future updates on new localizations, and more, from the Minecraft Wiki team.

If you'd like to join the Curse team in creating and maintaing awesome sites like the Minecraft Wiki, check out our current job openings!

In this recent tweet, we can see the first released image of a game-generated river! It's a safe bet at the moment that it will face similar height restrictions as default water generation, but that may change in time - after all, we already have legitimately generated waterfalls!

We will keep you posted as more information about rivers is released.

"Scrolls" Lawsuit, Pt. 2

Notch feels he has a solution to the pending lawsuit between Mojang and Bethesda - a Quake 3 tournament! He provided the following stipulations:

"Three of our best warriors against three of your best warriors. We select one level, you select the other, we randomize the order. 20 minute matches, highest total frag count per team across both levels wins.

If we win, you drop the lawsuit.

If you win, we will change the name of Scrolls to something you’re fine with."

As of this writing, Bethesda has not responded to the challenge.


Creeper Car

Mojang employee Daniel Kaplan tweeted about a rather interesting discovery - the ability to customize a Holden Barina with a creeper-themed paint job! As of this writing, "The Creeper" holds the #1 spot for popularity in custom designs, so feel free to head over and vote it up some more!

For those of you who haven't had a chance to see BebopVox's Minecraft Monday series, here's a chance to check it out! He covers a variety of topics - all things Minecraft-related - with a highly energetic, catchy style. This is the most recent episode, so give it a look and see what you think!

Jeb recently tweeted this image, which appears to be pork, beef and lamb in the player inventory. It would seem that Steve is becoming quite the chef! We'll post more information as it becomes available!

Mojang announced that the pocket version of Minecraft is now available exclusively on Xperia Play for a limited time, and released to other Android devices after that. Mojang's Carl Manneh had this to say about it:

"The first version (Alpha 0.1) will focus on the creative aspects of Minecraft. We have tried to put in the features that make sense for playing on a mobile device while still keeping the core of the Minecraft experience. You will be able to select blocks on the touchscreen or just scroll through them with the circle and square buttons on the Xperia Play device. The first version also supports multi-player on a local wireless network allowing you to create a world and invite friends to build together. Some of the features in this release include:

• Randomized worlds
  
• Build anything you can imagine
  
• Build with 36 different kinds of blocks
  
• Invite and play with friends to your world (local wireless network)
  
• Save multi-player worlds on your own phone

Minecraft Pocket Edition, now available for $6.99 exclusively on Xperia Play devices! In addition, we have created a new section for the occasion. Feel free to discuss all things "Pocket" there!

Raymond007 brings us today's Digital Diamond - an 18th century city! With over 4 million blocks used (and 8 builders to use them), this project is certainly something to behold. The tour of the city covers large, sweeping buildings nestled alongside colonial streets and homes, detailed waterways and more. Take a look!


Digital Diamonds is an ongoing look at Minecraft-related videos that have been submitted to the Minecraft forum video section. We'll be selecting memorable videos and those resonating with the community to share with everyone on the front page.