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 »

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 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 »

DICE awards: Full list of winners
DICE awards: Full list of winners

The DICE awards have just finished in Las Vegas with the Playstation 3 exclusive Journey taking Game of the year along with many others, being the clear runaway winner of the night. The Walking Dead also... Continue Reading »

Notch-funded Psychonauts 2 falls through, for now
Notch-funded Psychonauts 2 falls through, for now

It was about this time last year that Markus Perrson (Notch) made noises about being willing to fund a Psychonauts sequel, even going so far to meet up with Tim Schafer. But it seems that, at least for... 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 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 »

Minecraft Halloween skin pack announced
Minecraft Halloween skin pack announced

From October 26th you’ll be able to download a new Halloween Skin pack for Minecraft on XBLA, in which the proceeds will go to charity. The pack contains 55 character skins in all, including characters... Continue Reading »

Next Minecraft patch will bring golden apples
Next Minecraft patch will bring golden apples

The next Minecraft patch will bring a number of bug fixes for update 1.8.2, whilst also adding golden apples to the food chain. 4J Studios are currently working on the patch as we speak, which corrects... Continue Reading »

Minecraft 1.8.2 update submitted to Microsoft for approval, patch notes now available
Minecraft 1.8.2 update submitted to Microsoft for approval, patch notes now available

Minecraft Xbox 360 developer 4JStudios has confirmed via a tweet that the latest patch, version 1.8.2, has been submitted to Microsoft for approval. There’s no word on how long that will take but... Continue Reading »

New Minecraft deal with Egmont publishing may lead to books and magazines
New Minecraft deal with Egmont publishing may lead to books and magazines

Just when you thought Minecraft couldn’t get any more popular out pops the news that you’ll soon be able to see it in your local ASDA. Yep, if you’re a parent then your kids may soon be screaming... Continue Reading »