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Minecraft has already been available on the Xbox 360 for quite some time now through the Xbox Live Arcade. It’s also quite popular on Microsoft’s platform, racking up five million downloads in 2012. Because of the game’s popularity, Microsoft has announced that Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition will be available at retail stores starting April 30 for $19.99.

The game will be pretty much identical to the downloadable version available on XBLA, and it will come with the upcoming 9th update to the game, as well as include all of the features and content of previous updates. The only major difference is that the game will come with a case and disc to display proudly on your shelf.

The retail version of the game will also be coming to Australia, Hong Kong, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and Taiwan sometime in early June, but an exact date and price weren’t announced yet. The three-year-old game has made quite the impact on the gaming community, and for being just a basic game, it’s replay value is infinite.

Collectively, Minecraft garnered over 15 million downloads in 2012, and just recently the game was released for the Raspberry Pi for free. The Raspberry Pi is a small, credit card-sized computer priced at $35 that’s able to run basic programs and games, such as Minecraft. Now if we could just easily get our hands on one, we’d finally be able to play Mojang’s infamous title for free.

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition coming to retail stores April 30 for $19.99 is written by Craig Lloyd & originally posted on SlashGear.
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How many of you are seriously involved in this hit game known as Minecraft, and simply cannot get enough of the block building title? If you have answered in the affirmative, chances are you had gone through the motions of playing when it was still bright outside, only to play all the way through the night and morning during those long weekends. Well, Jim Rutherford is certainly a fan of Minecraft, and he decided to come up with a rather cool modification for his son by bringing the immersion of Minecraft into the real world.

After noticing a commercial for Philip’s Hue, which is actually an ambient light bulb which can be wirelessly controlled, Jim was inspired to “connect” the the lights to Minecraft, having them follow the game’s day-night cycle instead. This result in Jim picking up a Hue Starter Set for $199, and used a free app from Philips via the App Store, before creating his own iPad app that delivered the relevant central controls for the ambient game lighting. Ain’t he one of the coolest dads to have around?

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Minecraft has definitely been a success on many unprecedented levels for sure, which is a good thing, as it shows that the world is still not short on creativity when it comes to churning out new gaming titles for the masses. Well, as with any self-respecting game, there will be addicts at the scene as well, and Minecraft is no different. In fact, you might be classified as hardcore should you decide to actually play Minecraft Pocket Edition on your touchscreen-capable mobile device using the $19.99 Minecraft Pickaxe Touchscreen Stylus.

The Minecraft Pickaxe Touchscreen Stylus says it all – it is a miniature pickaxe that was designed to resemble the classic pickaxe within Minecraft itself, where it will play nice on majority of the touchscreen devices out there, regardless of whether you are a smartphone or tablet owner. Thing is, you will be able to write with the top of the pickaxe or to use the end of the handle, the job will still get done. Made out of high-density foam, the Minecraft Pickaxe Touchscreen Stylus measures 3.25″ x 2″ if you are interested in picking it up.

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We’re sure, just like us, many of you are fans of Mojang’s Minecraft no matter where you play it. We’ve spent hours upon hours building our dream home by day while trying to stay safe from the enemies that tend to make their way across the world at night. But what if those enemies all of a sudden started coming out during the day?

A fan-made video called “Minecraft: Day Blockers” highlights this exact predicament and was published on YouTube yesterday. The fan-made video  combines the real-world with Minecraft’s 8-bit visuals seamlessly. Throughout the entire video, you’ll see the two Minecraft players attack their enemies with a diamond sword, a bow & arrow, and later on in the video, both. (more…)

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