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Everyone has a favorite hobby, game or toy, and if it so happens that you know someone who lives, eats, and breathes Minecraft, you would do him or her well with the $19.99 Minecraft Light-Up Diamond Ore (also available in the UK from Amazon). Yes, this is one diamond ore that will be able to provide some ambient lighting whenever dusk falls, and it carries an adequate amount of light to ensure that monsters will remain hidden in their closets and under your bed so that you are able to enjoy a good night’s rest.

100% inspired by Minecraft and made by the good people over at ThinkGeek, the Minecraft Light-Up Diamond Ore works in a very simple manner. In order to activate it, just give it a tap, and you’re good to go. There are three different lighting levels to choose from, and they are low, medium, bright. Sure, it is not going to be as glitzy as an actually diamond for the other half, but one thing’s for sure – it is a piece of rock that is a whole lot more affordable. This is the ideal night light for Minecraft fans, and best of all is, you do not need to fear about accusations that you have a bootleg item from the Minecraft universe, as this is an officially licensed Minecraft collectible. Made out of ABS plastic, it will glow with internal LEDs thanks to the pair of AA batteries that power this bad boy.
[ Minecraft Light-Up Diamond Ore for the hardcore Minecraft fan in your life copyright by Coolest Gadgets ]

Its not like games haven’t been blamed in the past for inciting violence, but one probably wouldn’t put indie hit Minecraft along with games that are often blamed. However, the father of a nine year old school boy in Florida believes that Minecraft incited his son to act out in a negative way. The boy reportedly told his friends that he had weapons in his backpack, the friends told on him which lead to school officials searching the boy’s backpack. They found an unloaded gun and a magazine with six bullets, a steak knife and a small sledgehammer.

Fortunately, no one was injured and the police confiscated all of the weapons. The gun belonged to the boy’s father, who claimed that while it was stored in a drawer, it couldn’t be fired as the firing pin had been removed. Speaking to WFTV news, he said that his son was “playing a character he learned from Minecraft,” as “they use hammers to dig and knives and guns to protect themselves from zombies.” The unnamed boy was charged with three counts of possession and he has been sentenced to home confinement by a state judge as a result of his actions, bringing lethal weapons into a school.

Minecraft Blamed As Student Brings Weapons To School original content from Ubergizmo.

There are those with free time, and then there’s Joseph Braybrook. This fine bloke managed to recreate some 86,000 square miles of Great Britain within the Minecraft universe, and moreover, it took but a fortnight to concoct. Further justifying his work as more than goofing off, he used Ordnance Survey terrain data in the world’s construction, leading Graham Dunlop, OS Innovation Lab Manager, to proclaim the following: “We think we may have created the largest Minecraft world ever built based on real-world data.” The new universe contains over 22 billion Minecraft blocks, and once players have downloaded the 3.6GB file, they’re free to build at will. Just don’t go planting any US flags — that’s just downright rude.

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It’s that time of the year again – a very long time before Thanksgiving – so we’re all getting ready to celebrate Christmas!  This Nightmare Before Christmas Minecraft rollercoaster is the perfect way for me to kick off my celebratory events.  I can only imagine how long this project took, as the rollercoaster has an incredible amount of detail and lasts for more than five minutes!  Update: I stopped imagining and checked the YouTube description – several builders took two and a half months in order to complete this project!  That’s three and six tenths of the time that it takes for a woman to go through pregnancy!

The kids sit ’round the fireplace, and you gather them near – yelling and snapping and flicking their ears.  Watch a movie, you say, with the utmost delight – what the children believe, is a Christmas fright. – “Tim” Edgar Allen Amy Poehler

All of the design in this coaster is professionally done, and the characters are really brought to life.  Not only that, but all of this is done on an incredible scale.  The builders, of course, have stereotypical Minecraft-guy YouTube usernames: Rivergrl21, Nuro, WayHighMinecraftGuy, Vinny8Ball666, AnOldBum, Nycwatcherable, and DrWrebagzhoe.  My bet: DrWrebagzhoe is nothing more than a dentist, if that.  He can probably write prescriptions about as legally as these guys can build an X-Ray gun.  Hint: you aren’t allowed to build lethal X-Ray guns.  Anymore.

This Minecraft rollercoaster is an amazing creation in itself, and will be that much more special to fans of The Nightmare Before Christmas.  And, now… the moment you’ve all been waiting for… I will attempt to hang 30 binder clips from my armpit hair the rollercoaster ride-in video is below!

Even if you did little more than get seasick and spit up during that video, you have to appreciate all of the work that was put into this creation.  Think of how many blocks were placed!  Think of how many dubstep versions of Halloween they had to sift through!

If you’re still hungry for more interwebz chow, check out the Minecraft version of Man of Steel!  If you’re not into unrealistic superheros with bad rock allergies, then cuddle up with the life-size Creeper cushion, which (supposedly) will not explode.  (It’s a marketing tactic – no one would buy it if they said straight out that it explodes.)

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All of you Minecraft fans, there is word going around that a new DLC which will feature the Mass Effect theme is headed towards the game, although this time around, the new DLC will be made available only for the Xbox 360 console as an exclusive. This particular Mass Effect themed DLC pack came was announced by Minecraft Xbox 360 developer 4J Studios, where it will bring with it a Mass Effect textures set, a new themed user interface, a pre-built world that is based on the Mars Facility, three dozen new skins and 22 music tracks from Mass Effect 3.

The pack will be made available from September 4th onwards, where it is tipped to cost you just $3.99, which is a relative pittance compared to the many hours of gaming joy that you are going to get out of this DLC. So far, we do know that Minecraft for Xbox 360 has clocked up some pretty impressive figures in the past, having sold more than 8 million copies ever since it was released. Not only that, we also know that the next generation Sony PS4 will also feature Minecraft, in addition to the PS3 and PS Vita platforms getting the game as well. It is definitely a game that is on the ascendant.

Minecraft Mass Effect Themed DLC Coming original content from Ubergizmo.