Tag: Mojang
News Mojang Is Building a Native PS5 Version of Minecraft, And It Needs Your Help
Test it out from today
Minecraft is fully playable on PS5 through backwards compatibility, but a native new-gen version is on the way – and you may be eligible to test it from today. Those of you who own the iconic indie will be able to test out a “preview” of the updated release by navigating to ‘Settings’ > ‘Preview’ within the...
News Looks Like Minecraft Will Get a Native PS5 Version Soon
Backend listings spotted
After digging up some fresh evidence, Minecraft fans are getting excited about what appears to be a proper PS5 port of the sandbox-'em-up. The PS4 edition of Minecraft is of course playable on PS5 thanks to backwards compatibility, but it's a rickety old version at this point. The Xbox version was updated at the end of last...
News Minecraft’s Free Trials and Tales Update Has a PS4 Release Date
Sniffer it out
The latest free content update for Minecraft, Trails and Tales, has been dated for release on 7th June. This update adds a whole host of new content: biomes, mobs, features, blocks, armour, and more. The major release sees the addition of some long awaited features, including cherry blossom biomes and archeology, where players are...
Mini Review Minecraft Legends (PS5) - Streamlined Strategy for the Young at Heart
The Piglins are revolting
Minecraft Legends brings a fairly unique mix of action and strategy to Mojang's famous cubed universe, in which you must defend the Overworld from a ravaging horde of interdimensional Piglin invaders. It's quite fun in short bursts, too, but simplicity and repetition quickly set in, meaning those looking for an engaging...
News Minecraft Legends Shaping Up to Be a Real Treat, Marches onto PS5, PS4 in April
It's hip to be square
Few franchises have the endurance and adaptability of Minecraft. Case in point: Minecraft Legends shares many touchstones with the mainline series, like its quirky sense of humour and iconic art design, but is looking like it might have the chops to be a super fun competitive strategy game in its own right. We got a couple of...
News Minecraft Legends Is a Strategy Game Perfect for Console Squares
Strategy²
Minecraft Legends is a fun new spin on the Minecraft formula we all know and love, combining it with elements of a real-time strategy game that looks like an exciting, fast-paced mix. It looks like it will be right at home on console, as players will give commands in a more action-oriented fashion than is generally traditional for an RTS...
News Buzz Lightyear Comes to Minecraft in DLC Collaboration Between Mojang and Disney
To infinity, and beyond!
Everybody's favourite Space Ranger is coming to Minecraft in glorious, blocky form, as a part of the Minecraft x Lightyear DLC, and it's available right now on PS4. Experience Buzz Lightyear's origin story across five missions, which will take players through diverse biomes after the intrepid explorer crash lands on an...
News Minecraft Legends Is a PS5, PS4 Strategy Adaptation Coming in 2023
Brick tactics
Minecraft’s already been a Diablo-esque dungeon crawler, so it’s pretty versatile. We suppose Minecraft Legends is no real surprise, then – an “action strategy game” coming in 2023. “Explore a gentle land of rich resources and lush biomes on the brink of destruction,” the press release teases. “The ravaging piglins have...
News Minecraft's the Wild Update is Now Live, Introduces the Deep Dark Biome
In the deep, dark places of the world
Minecraft's long-awaited free update, The Wild, is now live, and it introduces the brand new Deep Dark biome, along with a veritable boatload of changes, fixes, and improvements and additions. Also, frogs and eldritch nightmares. The Deep Dark is a dimly-lit and eerie area that can be found far beneath the...
News Angry Birds Wings It with Minecraft Add-On for PS4
The birds and the bricks
Minecraft is in a flap, and it’s all because of those pesky Angry Birds. Available now in the Minecraft Marketplace, you can pick up a new expansion inspired by Rovio’s legendary puzzler. The add-on will see you play as familiar fowl Red, as you seek to rescue your birdnapped buddies. Recover your pals, and you’ll...
News Minions Come to Minecraft in Latest Crossover Collaboration
C'est banana
Movie franchise Minions is the latest to get a Minecraft makeover, as part of a new DLC pack released just in time for new film, Minions: Rise of Gru. The DLC will see you assuming the role of a yellow henchman, as you bring the fight to “iconic villains like the Vicious Six, El Macho, and Vector”. It’s available in the Minecraft...
News Sonic the Hedgehog Celebrates Anniversary with Minecraft Pack
Might be the best Sonic in eons
Outside of the content being created in Dreams, this might just be the best Sonic the Hedgehog game in quite some time. A meaty DLC pack has released in Minecraft, featuring the iconic blue blur and his band of furry friends. Billed as an “infinite 3D runner”, the content will see you sprinting through distinct...
News Minecraft PS4 Adds New Set of Trophies as Caves and Cliffs Releases
Cliffs notes
Mojang has crafted up an entire second set of Trophies for Minecraft: PS4 Edition, which has rolled out alongside the anticipated Caves & Cliffs Part 1 update today. The new set will allow the developer to significantly expand on the number of Trophies already included with the game, with 130 virtual trinkets now available. Three...
News Minecraft Will Become the GOAT Next Summer with Goats
🐐
Ever wondered what’s new in the world of Minecraft? Quite a lot, it turns out. Speaking over the weekend as part of fan convention Minecraft Live 2020, developer Mojang announced a gigantic Caves & Cliffs update for the iconic craft-‘em-up, which is set to release next summer. This is an absolutely gigantic expansion, hence the hefty...
News Minecraft PSVR Support Arrives Today with Free Game Update
Build virtually anything
Earlier this month, Sony revealed that Minecraft would be getting PlayStation VR support. The blocky survival sandbox will be fully playable in virtual reality using a DualShock 4 controller, letting you get a feel for how big the structures you make really are. The game has been playable in VR on PC for a while now, but...
News Minecraft Adds PSVR Support with Free Update Later This Month
Crafty
The first of Sony's PlayStation VR spotlight announcements has arrived, and it's actually a rather cool one. The uber-popular Minecraft will be receiving full PSVR support later this month as part of a free PlayStation 4 update. This virtual reality support extends to the entire game, meaning it's not its own separate mod
News Minecraft's Jurassic World DLC Proves That Bricks Find a Way
We need more teeth
The new Jurassic World movie is back in production after a brief coronavirus-induced shooting hiatus, but while you wait for the film to release, Minecraft should help to satiate your hunger for dinosaur-themed media. To be fair, this update looks absolutely fantastic, whisking you away to an idyllic island where life simply finds...
News Minecraft Dungeons Explores PS4 from 26th May
Creepers crawlies
Spin-off title Minecraft Dungeons will dig deep on PlayStation 4 from 26th May, following a short delay out of its original April release window. The teensy postponement is due to developer Mojang wanting to “guarantee the health of its teams” amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis. Expect to see more of this kind of thing moving...
Game of the Decade Minecraft's Emergent Gameplay and Player Freedom Led to Global Domination
You mine, and you craft
We’re listing the ten Games of the Decade. These are the ten PlayStation titles released over the past ten years that we believe have left a historic mark on the industry. Whether it’s Destiny's impact on the Games as a Service space or Journey’s innovative approach to online connectivity, these are the releases that...
E3 2019 Minecraft: Dungeons Is a Blocky Take on Diablo, Coming to PS4 in 2020
Diabolical
Mojang, the development team behind Minecraft, is back with a whole new take on the ultra-popular franchise. Minecraft: Dungeons is a Diablo-inspired dungeon crawler set in the familiar blocky world. You can see it in action in its debut trailer. With four-player local or online co-op, you'll be able to delve into creepy dungeons, fight...
News Minecraft Support Officially Axed on PS3, PS Vita
Chip off the old block
Minecraft’s final update – which includes support for the Nightmare Before Christmas mash-up pack – has been released on the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita, effectively ending support for those versions of the game. Joining the ageing Sony systems are the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii U, which have also been binned by developer...
News Minecraft's Better Together Update Could Yet Come to PS4
Cross-play conversation re-opened
Fortnite wasn’t the first game to start the cross-play conversation: it was actually Minecraft. You may remember Microsoft announcing the Better Together update for every system but the PlayStation 4, because back then the Japanese giant wasn’t playing ball. It’s slowly opening up its do
News Of Course There's a Final Fantasy XV Skin Pack for Minecraft
We expected it sooner
A Final Fantasy XV skin pack for Minecraft? But of course. The pack's available on the PlayStation Store now, coming in at £2.49 in the UK and $4.55 in North America. Square Enix's adventure joins the likes of Mass Effect and Skyrim when it comes to Minecraft add-ons. The more the merrier, we suppose. Given Final Fantasy XV's...
E3 2017 Sony's Clearly Not a Fan of Cross-Console Play
Minecraft goes cross-console on everything but PS4
Microsoft is unifying pretty much all versions of Minecraft – except, of course, the PlayStation editions. While the Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, PC, smartphone, and even virtual reality versions will all be updated to amalgamate the experience, it seems Sony has said no to such an endeavour –...
News Minecraft's Braving Radiation with Fallout DLC
Mind the ghouls
Wow, it's been a while since we wrote about Minecraft, but its newly announced Fallout skin pack looks too cool to ignore. We spotted a ton of locations from the open world titles in the trailer that we've embedded above, including a rather blocky replica of the Prydwen from Fallout 4. The DLC is coming to the console versions of...
News Star Wars Brings the Force to Minecraft: PlayStation Edition
The empire strikes block
Sony's billing the PlayStation 4 as the system for Star Wars, so it would be a bit embarrassing if it didn't get Luke Skywalker and crew into the PlayStation versions of Minecraft. Fortunately, through a collaboration with "Disney Interactive, LucasFilm, and Microsoft" – seriously, this is written on the PlayStation Blog...
News Woohoo! The Simpsons are Bringing a Lot of Yellow to Minecraft on PS4, PS3, Vita
Mmmm, pixelated blocks
Fans of The Simpsons may well be drooling like a starved Homer right about now, with the announcement that Minecraft's getting a rather large set of character skins based on the animated comedy. The DLC pack will be bringing its yellowy charm to PlayStation platforms this week, and it'll set you back £3.29. While the show...
News Minecraft Enters Orbit with Mass Effect DLC This Week
Block to the future
Minecraft's getting two new DLC packs this week on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, and Vita. Alongside the not-that-interesting Pattern Texture Pack, which applies soft colours and knitted animals to your blocky world, you'll also be able to jet into space with the Mass Effect Mash-Up Pack. As its name suggests, this will coat the...
News Minecraft: PS Vita Edition Secures System's Third Strongest UK Debut
Up there with the launch titles
Well, this is a surprise – and it makes the absence of a themed hardware bundle for the holidays all the more confusing. The physical version of Minecraft: PS Vita Edition has secured the third-biggest debut ever for the PlayStation Vita in the UK, with only launch titles Uncharted: Golden Abyss and
News Minecraft's Taking a Seasonal Holiday to Skyrim In the Near Future
DLC pack is soaring onto Sony platforms
Ah, Skyrim. A setting full of glorious natural beauty, strange beasts, hardy people, plenty of mead, and more technical bugs than you can imagine. It's a virtual world that we're sure many readers will remember with fondness, but how would you like to explore those cold Northern reaches all over again on...
Review Minecraft: PS Vita Edition (PlayStation Vita)
Brick slayer
So, let’s get the obvious gag out of the way: Microsoft has a better PlayStation Vita lineup than Sony this year. Following the Redmond-based organisation’s somewhat unexpected acquisition of Mojang last month, it was touch and go for all of a few minutes whether Minecraft: PS Vita Edition would ever release at all. Fortunately, it...
News MineCraft Builds a Brick House on PlayStation Vita Next Week
Mine and yours
Prior to the Microsoft acquisition, there were a few concerns that it would never happen, but MineCraft: PS Vita Edition finally has a date – in Europe at least. 4J Studios – the team behind the portable port – revealed on Twitter overnight that the handheld house making simulator will deploy on
Weirdness This Minecraft Remake of P.T. is Almost as Scary as The Original
Block party
It was only a matter of time before a crafty fan remade Hideo Kojima's harrowing P.T. demo in Minecraft, and, as usual, the enterprising community has outdone itself. All of your favourite moments are represented here: the famous looping hallway, the embarrassingly dirty bathroom, and, of course, the lingering sense that downloading this...
News Minecraft: PS4 Edition Paves a Path to Retail Next Month
Business as usual
Microsoft may have built a $2.5 billion brick wall around the Minecraft franchise, but it seems that there are no changes to Sony’s plans, as it’s announced that a retail version of the game’s recently released PlayStation 4 Edition will deploy on 3rd October in Europe and 7th October in North America. The physical outing...
Rumour Minecraft Maker May Be Purchased by Microsoft for $2 Billion
Good job they finished the PS4 version
Minecraft has already proven that it’s a pixelated license to print money, and Microsoft apparently wants the lucrative brand under its umbrella. A report on the Wall Street Journal states that the Redmond-based firm is in talks to purchase Mojang, the organisation behind the bricklaying game. According to...
Review Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition (PlayStation 4)
Chip off the old block
Minecraft is quite simply one of those games that will go down in history as a truly revolutionary idea. Markus ‘Notch’ Persson’s block busting sandbox has rapidly transformed into a cultural phenomenon, sprouting memorabilia, fancy dress costumes, and, of course, console ports. This PlayStation 4 release is very much...
Video Watch as We Delve into Minecraft on PS4 and PS Vita
Next-gen blocking
Our good friends over at Family Gamer TV have been kind enough to send over their videos of Minecraft running on the PlayStation 4 and Vita. The game finally released yesterday on Sony's newest console. If you've been wondering about how Mojang's mega popular title performs, take a look at the seven minute video that we've...
Feature What Makes PS4's Minecraft the Definitive PlayStation Edition?
Build it higher
Minecraft may be one of the biggest video game properties of the last decade, but it certainly took its time in coming to PlayStation platforms. Today marks its release on the PlayStation 4, and with its arrival, questions have begun popping up all over the web as Sony-only gamers search for answers regarding the blocky adventure. If...
News Minecraft is Finally Out on PS4, and You can Get It Cheap if You Own the PS3 Edition
Hallelujah
Well, the ordeal is finally over — Minecraft PlayStation 4 Edition is available right now on the European PlayStation Store, while it's promised for release on the North American store at some point today. As you may already know, yesterday's store update's apparent lack of Mojang's title had many in an uproar after it was all but...
News Minecraft Finally Builds Its Way onto European PS4s Later Today
Can you dig it
Rejoice, European block lovers, for today is finally the day that Minecraft digs its way onto the PlayStation 4. The title — barring another last minute delay — should emerge on the PlayStation Store after its usual weekly update. The good news comes via Twitter, where PlayStation France confirmed that develop
News Minecraft PS4 Building a Brick Path onto Sony's Freshest Format
Second time lucky
Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition unceremoniously failed certification the first time around, but 4J Studios will be hoping that everything’s alright on the night at its second attempt. The British developer – which has handled all of the popular title’s console ports – announced on Twitter overnight that the game
News Minecraft on PS4 Fails Quality Testing, Gets Buried by Sony for a Little While Longer
There and block again
Evergreen sandbox adventure Minecraft was expected to come out this month on the PlayStation 4, but earlier today, the studio in charge of porting the smash hit announced on Twitter that the game had failed quality testing. "Sony found some issues we have to fix in their final test of Minecraft PS4," 4J Studios wrote, before...
Gamescom 2014 Minecraft Sure Looks Blocky on PS Vita
Pixel perfect
Sony didn’t announce the big Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition hardware bundle that we were expecting this week, but the game’s definitely looking rock solid on the handheld machine. The platform holder has deployed this fairly lengthy trailer showing off the portable release, which demonstrates that it’s an identical...
News Could Minecraft Be the PlayStation Vita's Secret Killer App?
Digging up something delightful
There’s a fair amount of chatter right now about Sony’s treatment of the PlayStation Vita, with numerous executives indicating that the firm’s slowing its support for the format. However, we get the sneaking suspicion that many are sleeping on Minecraft, which, with the right sort of marketing and bundles, could...
E3 2014 How Does Minecraft Look on the PlayStation Vita?
A lot like Minecraft
Sony may have gone another E3 without really explaining how it attempts to revive the fortunes of its failing handheld format, but there was a PlayStation Vita killer app at its booth – the company just forgot to tell everyone. Assuming that it handles the release properly, Minecraft: PS Vita Edition has the potential to be a...
E3 2014 Minecraft PS4 Trailer Focuses on PlayStation's Famous Faces
Build me up, buttercup
There are more than a few familiar faces in this brand new trailer for Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition. The next-gen blockbuster – which is due out in August – shows Kratos, Ellie, Ratchet, and the Journeyer from, er, Journey buccaneering in Mojang’s blocky world, and uncovering a number of PlayStation themed artifacts...
News Minecraft Will Be Tunnelling onto PS4 and Vita in August
Plus a load of details including cross-buy
Miners rejoice! Minecraft's arrival on the PlayStation 4 and Vita has been given a slightly less vague release date. Mojang has confirmed that the dig-'em-up will be tunnelling onto the two platforms in August, so you've only got a couple of months to wait before you're able to slaughter harmless sheep on...
News Minecraft: PS4 Edition Will Let You See Much More Than PS3
Like putting on a pair of glasses
Mojang’s cube cuffing blockbuster Minecraft will boast a greater draw distance on the PlayStation 4, port house 4J Studios has revealed. The next-gen iteration of the outrageously popular indie release will allow you to see much further than its PlayStation 3 counterpart, making various vistas look fuller as a...
News Minecraft: PS Vita Edition's First Screenshot Sure Looks Familiar
Present and correct
That sure looks like Minecraft, doesn’t it? In response to impatient fans overnight, professional port house 4J Studios has shared the first direct screenshot from the impending PlayStation Vita port of Mojang’s blockbuster – and it looks exactly like you’d expect it to. The image shows th
News Minecraft Maker Makes PS4 and Vita Versions a Top Priority
Sweet new textures coming to PS3
We already know that Minecraft’s basic building blocks are in place on the PlayStation 4 and Vita, after port house 4J Studios posted a picture of both versions of the game in action. However, the UK-based outfit – which works in conjunction with creator Mojang to convert the indie smash to consoles – has since...
