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Jun 19, 2020
A major update for the Nether region in Minecraft gets loads of new content on June 23rd.
Minecraft is one of the biggest and most in-depth games currently on the market, and it just keeps getting bigger. The most recent update will apply to the Nether region, a hell-like zone with molten lava and lots of baddies to slay.
The update will add new enemies to battle, new items to check out, and loads of new regions to explore. The update is actually quite major, and will add way too much to new content to explain it all here.
There will be new biomes, mobs, structures, items, armor and even crafting materials. There is even going to be an all new target block to add some variety of activation to your Redstone switches.
Minecraft Dev Diaries – Nether Update
More info
The update is slated to be released on June 23rd, 2020. For more information on the update, you can visit the official Minecraft website.
For more cool Minecraft news, check out my coverage of Minecraft Dungeons coming to Switch.
- May 26, 2020
Minecraft Dungeons is now available for Nintendo Switch, and has a new launch trailer.
Minecraft Dungeons is an all new take on a classic game that has been in the hands of most gamers around the world. Pretty much everyone who is anyone has at least given Minecraft a try at one point or another. Well, an all new version of the game has been released for the Nintendo Switch. Minecraft Dungeons is an action/adventure title that takes place in the Minecraft style that we all know and love.
Minecraft Dungeons releases today for the Nintendo Switch, and will cost $19.99 through the Nintendo eShop. A pretty amazing price considering all the Minecraft games have to offer. The Switch release also came with an all new trailer, which you can view below.
Minecraft Dungeons Features!
- Dungeon Creeper! Battle new-and-nasty mobs in this all-new action-adventure, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers.
- Multiplayer! Up to four players can team up and fight together in co-op mode.
- Power Up! Unlock dozens of unique items and weapon enchantments for devastating special attacks.
- Options! Personalize your character, then fight up-close and personal with melee swings, hang back with ranged attacks, or tank your way through swarms of mobs, shielded by heavy armour!
- Epicness! Explore treasure-stuffed levels in a quest to take down the evil Arch-Illager!
New Switch Trailer
For more information on Minecraft Dungeons, visit the official Nintendo website.
For more awesome action/adventure titles, check out my coverage of Wave Break.
- Nov 13, 2019
The ever-popular sandbox game Minecraft gets some streamlining in the latest update.
Like many games before, Minecraft is one of those titles that will probably never die. With new updates being released at a steady rate, Minecraft continues to grow and change in ways that nobody thought possible. The most recent changes, however, are just to help make sure the latest version of the game functions properly.
In update 1.13.1, there have been some changes made that make the game run more smoothly. Including one where portals actually take you to where they are supposed to. Mind you, this update is for Minecraft Bedrock, not Minecraft Java. See the full patch notes below.
Fixes:
- Crashes
- Fixed a crash that could occur during gameplay
- Fixed several crashes that could occur when joining Realms
- Fixed a crash that could occur when joining Featured Servers
- Fixed a crash that could occur when throwing lingering potions
- General
- Error message ‘Failed’ displays when attempting to ‘Create on Realms’ while there are expired Realms for the account
- Character Creator
- Elytra will no longer be invisible or blocky when using a custom imported skin (MCPE-54439)
- Players can now apply the Founder’s Cape to custom (imported) skins (MCPE-53513)
- Waiting for a skin to load will no longer block players from getting into a game (MCPE-45038)
- Players no longer share the same custom skin during multiplayer sessions (MCPE-48207)
- Gameplay
- Fixed chests sometimes being invisible (MCPE-52790)
- Going through portals will now take you to the correct place in the corresponding dimension (MCPE-54519)
- Tweaked view bobbing movement (MCPE-54645)
- We intend to tweak this further in a future update!
- User Interface
- Closed Realms are no longer displayed on the ‘Create on Realms’ screen
- Fixed incorrect Japanese and Korean characters appearing in Language settings.
For more information, as well as your chance to check out Minecraft for yourself, check out the official Minecraft website.
- Crashes
- Oct 29, 2019
For those of you that live under a rock and haven’t heard, Minecraft has been one of the longest and most successful running game franchises and is available on nearly every platform from mobile to high end consoles such as the PlayStation 4. Today the building game received a major update with a new character creator and adorable foxes!
The latest update brings lots of bug fixes but also introduces fun new features such as the new addition of foxes. While the they might eat your lovely chickens or steal your belongings you can feed them some sweet berries to tame them and make them your next best furry friend!
Furthermore the update brings an in-depth character creator that lets you change and adjust the “body size and shape, limb replacement and tweaking of eyes, mouth, hairstyles and colors, facial hair, and skin tones”. This has been a long requested feature I am so excited to finally be able to personalize the pixel version of myself!
Of course with Halloween just around the corner you can expect some mysterious and spoopy new additions to the game, a supsicious stew has been added as well as a wither rose that grows anywhere someone has died. Interesting!
You can read the patch notes below, for all the bug fixes that have made it into the game in todays update, you can check them out over here.
For more Minecraft fun, take a look at Minecraft Earth the Pokemon Go of Minecraft where you collect blocks in the real world and build your dream creations right in your own front yard.
Minecraft New Features
- Foxes!
- Keep your chickens safe and your belongings close, otherwise you’ll find them dead or gone – especially come nightfall. Foxes are more active at night and seek shade to sleep during the day. However, if you’re patient enough to feed two of them Sweet Berries, you can end up with a trusty one!
- Brown Mooshroom
- Transforms whenever a red Mooshroom is struck by lightning
- Feed them flowers and use a bowl to harvest Suspicious Stew!
- Suspicious Stew
- Craft stew with different flowers to grant different potion effects for a short period of time
- Share the suspiciousness with your friends and see how they like Suspicious Stew!
- Wither Rose
- A new, scary looking flower that is planted wherever a living entity dies to the Wither
- Might be useful when crafting Suspicious Stew?
- Item Frames can now be placed on the floor and ceiling!
- Added abandoned villages
- Added a celebration event that occurs if Pillagers successfully raid a village
- New Note Block instruments
- Make some sweet new jams by placing certain blocks under Note Blocks!
- Discover the new instruments with Glowstone, Haybale, Block of Emerald, Pumpkin, Soul Sand, Block of Iron, Bone Block, Wool, Packed Ice, Clay, and Block of Gold
- Added five dead coral types
- Added the Light Block for mapmakers
- Supports auxiliary data from 0 to 15 for light level
- Light blocks are supported via /give, /fill, and /setblock
- The invisible End Rod (variant 6) is now automatically updated to the new Light Block
- Added new in-game chat settings to improve accessibility
- Added game credits
- A way to see all the lovely people that work on the game!
- The credits can be viewed after defeating the Ender Dragon, and also through a new button found in the Settings menu
Character Creator:
- Personalize your character in a number of ways, including body size and shape, limb replacement and tweaking of eyes, mouth, hairstyles and colors, facial hair, and skin tones
- More than 100 items will be available for free. There will also be a range of custom accessories, created by the Minecraft team, available for purchase
- Traditional custom skins can still be imported as before, on Windows 10 and mobile, using the following steps: Profile > Edit Character > Classic Skins tab > Owned > Import > Choose New Skin
- For even more details, check out the Character Creator FAQ
Experimental Gameplay:
(Work in progress features that are only available when Experimental Gameplay is enabled in world settings)
- New and improved Structure Blocks
- Structure Blocks give creators the ability to copy and save out sections of their world into structures. Saved structures can then be pasted back into the world
- To get a Structure Block, you must use the ‘/give’ command
- When a structure is being loaded in, it can also be mirrored or rotated
- Structure Void blocks can be placed in an area to not copy air into the target area
- See How to Play in the game for more details and tips!
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- Foxes!
- Oct 6, 2019
Pokemon Go has been one, if not the most popular AR ( Augmented Reality) game of all time. Today Minecraft Earth was announced that aims to follow the success of the former AR mobile game. Minecraft Earth turns your surroundings into a huge playground, letting you interact and build with friends in the real world.
Minecraft Earth breaches the line between reality and video games and creates a perfect match between those two. Players will be able see reality turned into video game through the lens of a mobile phone. Much like Pokemon Go the game encourages the player to go out and explore, but instead of hunting Pokemon you will be looking for blocks ( materials ) that you will need to create constructions anywhere you like. You can also find and take on different challenges scattered throughout your neighborhood.
The blocks you find and collect can be used to build and unleash your creativity. Much like the traditional Minecraft game, you will also be able to collaborate with your friends to play and build together. The game even allows for capturing animals and breeding them as the official website states “Minecraft Earth features many of the mobs you know and love, along with a bunch of new ones. Over time, you’ll get the chance to breed unique variants, and use them to populate your builds.”
I am so excited to get building, as Minecraft Earth was already available on iOS and Android this summer as part of a closed beta program and finally starts rolling out to select countries this month of October. Make sure you check out the fun Minecraft Earth trailer below.
For more AR fun make sure you take a looksie at TokoToko an adorable take on AR mobile games.
- Sep 29, 2019
The release of Minecraft Earth is just around the corner, and early access starts next month!
Minecraft Earth is the newest VR game ready to take the stage. In Earth, you get to build whatever you want, wherever you want. As long as you have a mobile device that is able to run the game, be ready to build.
Minecraft Earth will be available on both iOS and Android devices. With AR becoming eve more popular, I can’t wait to give this one a try.
Key Features
- Collect blocks, mobs, and items of varying rarities from Tappables.
- Use the blocks, mobs, and items you collected to build your latest masterpiece on tabletop Build Plates.
- Explore your builds in life-size AR.
- Experience the world of Minecraft in the real world with augmented reality at Adventures
New Trailer
For more information about Minecraft Earth, check out the official website! For more awesome AR action, check out myPotatoGames coverage of TokoToko!
- Aug 11, 2019
Those who are already addicted to mobile gaming need no urging to try all the great games available on their smartphone or tablet. Those of us who find it physically awkward, or who don’t like the format, might need a little encouragement. But games of every type, from casual card or arcade games to story-rich adventures and RPGs, are all available on mobile. And mobile gaming can be adjusted to your comfort, too. Did you know that mobile controllers exist?
Mobile gaming, YOUR way
You can make any mobile device feel like a dedicated gaming device. There are many different controllers designed to fit to your mobile device (phone or tablet), giving it a comfortable grip and buttons and control sticks to take charge of the action. Have you tried a mobile controller like this?
Most Popular Mobile Games
As for games, the selection is nearly endless. There are so many farming games available on mobile that it’s hard to sort through them all. FarmVille, Family Farm, Hay Day, oh my. But to start you off with a familiar face, don’t forget that Stardew Valley is available on mobile!
You can even get a farming or gardening theme in game genres you might not expect. Gardenscapes is a surprisingly tricky and addictive match-3 game. It allows you to repair and rebuild a mansion’s beautiful garden in whichever style you choose. You can even go back later and change the fountains, paving, shrubs, flowerbeds…anything in any area you have unlocked.
If you like to build and have even more control over design, Minecraft is also very popular on mobile! You can get the Pocket Edition on both iOS and Android.
More interested in games that feel a little more social? Why not try the mobile game that took the world by storm in 2016? Pokemon Go is still popular and still alive with players and content.
If Pokemon is not your thing, then how about Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp? New features are always being added to the mobile extension of our beloved Animal Crossing. The animals are still all their lovable (or annoying!) selves, whether you meet them on your 3DS, your Switch, or your smartphone.
RPGs and Adventure
If there’s anyone left still sitting there, looking bored…how about some RPGs? Mobile gaming has those, too! There’s Nintendo’s own Dragalia Lost. It’s set in a world where the royal family has the ability to transform into dragons, if they have a pact with them. You begin the story as the seventh prince, who has yet to make a pact with any dragon, but must set out to do so immediately when the protection around his city begins to fail.
Another Eden: The Cat Beyond Time and Space is also a popular, large-scale RPG available on mobile. The story was written by Masato Kato (who also wrote Xenogears and Chrono Trigger). If that’s not enough, the game’s beautiful soundtrack is by Yasunori Mitsuda, who also worked on Xenogears and Chrono Trigger. That’s some good stuff! Another Eden has 26 main story chapters focusing on the protagonist, Aldo, and his sister, Fienne, and involves time-travelling through both the past and the future, as well as dealing with the present.
If you want something cute, colourful, and inspired by a classic, how about Egglia: Legend of the Redcap? Strongly influenced by Legend of Mana, you must revive your world by finding precious eggs. Each has had a part of the world sealed into it, and can be restored by hatching it on the map. Explore and gather resources with movement based on a roll of the dice, like a cross between a board game and a strategy RPG.
Story-driven games
But maybe what you like are story-driven games, which the mobile platform is often criticized for not having. But the market is growing all the time, and if you have a look, you’ll find some very special story-driven games waiting for you on your phone and tablet. Like the beautiful GRIS, which will be coming to iOS this month! A game about dealing with grief using light platforming and puzzles, it’s hard to know if this is a game, a storybook or a piece of art.
GRIS – iOS coming August 22! Forgotton Anne is also an iOS exclusive, and takes place in a world of “Forgotlings”. Personified socks and toys and scraps of paper…items that have been lost or forgotten in our own world. With hand-painted backgrounds, Forgotton Anne has a charm reminiscent of a Ghibli movie. It’s a game by Square Enix. We had to look it up to make sure Miyazaki really had nothing to do with it!
Forgotton Anne – iOS And lastly…only because soon this list will be too long…is To the Moon. An emotional tale of an old man’s dying wish to go to the moon. This is another game that, like Gris, feels like it may be as much ‘artistic expression’ as ‘game’. It was born of Canadian game-designer Kan Gao’s response to his grandfather’s struggle with his failing health. You must explore old Johnny’s memories to understand his life’s dream, and help him see it come true.
Still not convinced to make mobile gaming your own? As always, we want you to enjoy games in your own way. Especially if you are here for farming games in particular, please check out our list of farming games on console.
- Jun 25, 2019
Minecraft gets Toy Story DLC to celebrate the new installment in the Toy Story movie series.
For those of you that live under a rock and haven’t heard, Toy Story 4 has arrived in the theatre. Since way back in the day, Buzz and Woody have been entertaining us on the big screen, and across basically all gaming platforms. The arrival of the new movie is sure to spawn some video game lookalikes before we know it. But first, Minecraft got their hands on the rights to create some awesome DLC right away.
Minecraft is once again bringing our favorite toys to life with their new Toy Story Mash-Up DLC. It appears that you will get the chance to explore some pretty cool new zones, one of which looks a whole lot like Andy’s room. It also looks like you will get to visit Al’s Toy Barn, as well as the gas station from the first movie. You will get to play as Woody, Buzz Lightyear, Bo Peep, Jessie and much more. It is mentioned that this DLC will include features from all of the Toy Story movies.
Al’s Toy Barn? For more information, and to get your hands on this DLC, hop on over to the Minecraft Marketplace by clicking here. For more awesome Minecraft madness, check out our coverage of the Minecraft AR game by clicking here.
