Minecraft: Xbox 360 celebrates its 1st birthday
Minecraft: Xbox 360 celebrates its 1st birthday

To celebrate the 1st birthday of the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft, a new FREE skin pack has gone live, offering a variety of birthday outfits for your in-game characters to throw a party. In addition,... Continue Reading »

Friday fun: The Glitch
Friday fun: The Glitch

Ah the glitch, friend and foe to gamers everywhere, we’ve all experienced the glitch from the most painful game breaking ones to those that have you laughing out loud or reaching for your phone to... Continue Reading »

Xbox Live activity for week of April 1st
Xbox Live activity for week of April 1st

Major Nelson has released details on who is playing what on Live this week. It’s great news for fans of Terraria – Xbox 360 Edition as this week it has outsold Minecraft which has been on top for... Continue Reading »

Minecraft title update 9 coming April 5
Minecraft title update 9 coming April 5

4J Studios has confirmed that Minecraft’s 9th title update will release on Friday, April 5th. The latest update adds lots of new features including “The End”, where you’ll find... Continue Reading »

Minecraft sells 6 million
Minecraft sells 6 million

According to this tweet from 4J Studios, the Xbox 360 version of Minecraft has sold 6 Million copies since May 2012. On top of the news about update 9 update 9 is in certification with Microsoft it’s... Continue Reading »

Minecraft title update 9 gets a trailer
Minecraft title update 9 gets a trailer

4J Studios have not only been busy preparing the next title update for Minecraft, they’ve also created a new trailer to show you how you can collect Ender Pearls and Blaze Powder and how to enter... Continue Reading »

Are you ready to play games with nothing but your eyes?
Are you ready to play games with nothing but your eyes?

Kickstarter is at it again, this time turning your Kinect into a controller for your eyes! That long dreamt, but oh so lofty sci-fi dream of controlling everything with just a simple glance, might just... Continue Reading »

Minecraft gets retail release next month
Minecraft gets retail release next month

It’s hardly surprising that Minecraft will be getting a full retail release on disc next month, after achieving more than 5 million sales on XBLA. The disc version will contain all the same in-game... Continue Reading »

Dragon Age characters arrive in Minecraft Skin Pack 4
Dragon Age characters arrive in Minecraft Skin Pack 4

The next line-up of characters to feature in Minecraft’s Skin Pack 4 are Dragon Age characters: Alistair, Morrigan, Sten and Leliana They will join the cast of Borderlands characters on the confirmed... Continue Reading »

Spawn eggs introduced in Minecraft update 9
Spawn eggs introduced in Minecraft update 9

4J Studios has released the first screenshot for its forthcoming title update 9 for Minecraft. The picture contains a menu of the usual Minecraft items, except now we have some spawn eggs present. Spawn... Continue Reading »

Mojang plan to stay private and reject all acquisition offers
Mojang plan to stay private and reject all acquisition offers

The heads of Mojang, the studio behind Minecraft, say that they’ve been offered deals by almost every major gaming company in the world, yet have rejected them all in favour of staying private and... Continue Reading »

Minecraft update 8 detailed
Minecraft update 8 detailed

After it’s stellar performance in 2012, notching top spot in the Top Arcade Titles list and a very creditable 4th in the list of Top Live Titles, Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition is set for title update... Continue Reading »

Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition hits 5 million sales
Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition hits 5 million sales

The Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft graced Xbox Live Arcade with its presence 7 months ago and has already sold an incredible 5,000,000 (yes, 5 million!) units to date, making it one of the most successful... Continue Reading »

Minecraft Title Update 7 dated
Minecraft Title Update 7 dated

Minecraft developer 4J Studios has dated the game’s next title update, which will apparently release tomorrow. You can find a list of new features included in the update here. It’s quite funny... Continue Reading »

Features coming soon to Minecraft in Title Update 7 detailed
Features coming soon to Minecraft in Title Update 7 detailed

As well as revealing the list of characters that will be available in the Festive Skin Pack, PlayXBLA also revealed the features and additions we’ll be able to use and explore when the next Title... Continue Reading »

Full Minecraft Festive Skin pack lineup revealed
Full Minecraft Festive Skin pack lineup revealed

After the two teases we’ve had over the last few days, here’s the full list of characters you can be walking around your worlds in on the 19th of December on Minecraft as part of the brand... Continue Reading »

Two more screenshots show off the Minecraft Festive Skin Pack
Two more screenshots show off the Minecraft Festive Skin Pack

After Friday’s sneak peek at the upcoming Minecraft Festive Skin pack, two more screenshots have been posted on PlayXBLA. The screenshots show off some more new skins such as a Snowman, a Christmas... Continue Reading »

Take a sneak peek at the Minecraft Festive Skin Pack
Take a sneak peek at the Minecraft Festive Skin Pack

Following the recent success of the Minecraft Halloween Skin Pack which raised just under £500,000 for multiple charities, PlayXBLA have given us a sneak peek of the upcoming Festive Skin Pack which is... Continue Reading »

Minecraft Halloween Skin Pack raises almost £500,000 for charities
Minecraft Halloween Skin Pack raises almost £500,000 for charities

As we reported just over a month ago, between October 26th and November 26th, a special Halloween skin pack was available on Minecraft for you to download with all the proceeds being split between different... Continue Reading »

Minecraft Title Update 7 announced
Minecraft Title Update 7 announced

Following suit with keeping Minecraft: Xbox 360 Version as close to the PC version, PlayXBLA has announced the changelog for the next Title Update 7. The features will be taken from the Java version 1.0.1,... Continue Reading »