Early Thursday morning, 4J Studios, the developers of the Xbox version of Minecraft revealed that on New Years Eve, their version surpassed five million copies sold.  This is another huge milestone for the massive world-building sandbox game created by Markus "Notch" Persson and the Mojang team.  Early adopters of the PC alpha should be proud to have gotten in on the ground floor of this grassr... more.

  Year 2012 was an exciting year for games, with such titles as FTL: Faster Than Light, Borderlands 2, Far Cry 3, and Journey to name some of the more acclaimed titles, but 2013 promises to bring some more titles to the scene, including some great new indie properties.  This is my list, counting down my top seven most anticipated titles for 2013. 7. Caribbean! Developer: Snowbird Game ... more.

In a recent tweet, Nathan "Dinnerbone" Adams revealed a new feature that should be upcoming in a new snapshot.  We are finally going to be able to do things that we've been hoping for for a long time.  Item wall mounts, as well as several other greatly interesting features, have been coded into Minecraft.  Some of these take existing suggestions from redditors and mods to increase the immersion... more.

According to a recent tweet by Mojang AB's business developer Daniel Kaplan (@kappische), Mojang has hit another milestone.  Minecraft's PC version has hit seven million copies sold. This is encouraging for Minecraft players, as the steady sales means more money in Mojang's coffers to develop more and more interesting things for Minecraft.  The team certainly seems driven to continue providin... more.

  The OUYA, a new game console running Android OS, has made it out of its Kickstarter with far more than the money it needed to be funded.  The project ended with nearly 8.6 million dollars in funding and more than 63,000 backers.  That is about 900% of the $950,000 goal the company requested to get the system into production.  The process now moves into the finalization of the design a... more.

The most recent snapshot update for Minecraft includes several features planned for Minecraft's next big update, 1.4. Included this week is a hidden reputation developed by the way you treat villagers.  As you make trades with the villagers, they will come to like you more, offering you better trades.  But be violent with them, and they'll come to hate you, and offer you worse trades. Vil... more.

The newest patch for Minecraft has arrived today. There are so many updates in this list it can't fit in a mine cart so we just listed them all below. + Single-player now runs a server internally + Publish the single-player instance to LAN + Automatically detect LAN worlds in multi-player screen + Added “cheats” option in single-player (enables commands) + Added “bonus chest” option... more.

The upcoming third-person shooter for Xbox LIVE Arcade known as Hybrid seems to be pandering a bit.  The studio behind the moderately anticipated release, 5th Cell, has partnered with Mojang to offer exclusive Minecraft themed helmets to players who reach level 20 in their game, based on the faction they choose.   Pandering? You decide. Choose one faction, you get the Creeper head ... more.

The popular puzzle-like game from Valve may be breaking into a new market, just as Mojang's Minecraft did several months prior. The LEGO Cuusoo site, on which fans of different ideas for new LEGO sets can voice their support, has recently received a fan submitted request for a Portal themed LEGO set.  After receiving said request on the 28th of June, the set just passed the first phase of appr... more.

The new generation of gaming consoles may be right around the bend, if Yves Behar and the team at fuseproject have anything to say about it. The OUYA (oo-yah) is a concept Android powered TV game console.  Yes, now the operating system that runs your tablet and/or smartphone is going to be used in a gaming console.  It will be rootable, so hackers rejoice (the best part is, it won't void your... more.