Microsoft is about to add another heavy hitter to the Xbox Game Pass lineup: Minecraft. Revealed today on Inside Xbox, Minecraft will be playable with an Xbox Game Pass subscription starting April 4, 2019. The service costs $10 per month an...

Here at Destructoid, we routinely host contests for various gaming prizes. Things like free copies of upcoming games to plush penises from Devolver Digital: Dtoid has given back to the community in small ways over the years. Those giveaways...

Nintendo may have been the company to end 2018 with a Smashing bang, but last year really belonged to Sony. The PlayStation 4 has given the company its turn-of-the-Millennium confidence back, as has a steady stream of critically acclaimed a...

4J Studios has done a terrific job with supporting Minecraft on legacy consoles. Originally launched in 2013 for PS3/Vita and 2015 for Wii U, the games have continuously been patched with new content and performance fixes to get the most ou...

Microsoft has announced a new costume pack for hugely-successful build 'em up title Minecraft, with aims of raising cash for animal-friendly charity The World Wildlife Fund.The "Paws and Claws" pack will be the first of the WWF-themed chari...

This weekend will see Mexico City play host to the X018 event, a weekend of Xbox-related fun 'n' games which will see fans gather for news, trailers and no doubt a glut of great multiplayer action.Videocasters Inside Xbox will be on hand, b...

Your cat could be an official Minecraft cat if your cat is exceptionally cute and cool. (All cats are exceptionally cute and cool, so I am of the opinion that all cats belong in Minecraft.) The Minecraft team is making a blocky in...

For years people have been lauding the World of Warcraft model that's been in place for 14 years now: build with expansions and don't split the playerbase. Some companies like Bungie defied this (creating Destiny 2 right as Destin...

At this point people who refer to Minecraft as a fad are just as ridiculous as the folks who said the same thing about Pokemon in the early 2000s. It's just as popular as ever, appeals to pretty much all ages and skill levels, and is n...

When I played years ago, Minecraft was a lonely and contemplative chill-out exploration game backed by soothing tunes from C418. That's how I preferred to play it, anyway. I kept the action to a minimum. Going in the completely opposite dir...

Next year was supposed to see four films featuring four of the most popular characters in video games. Now, there will only be three. Everything is going right for Detective Pikachu, The Angry Birds Movie 2, and even the Sonic film, bu...

When Microsoft bought Minecraft nearly four years ago, it thought it was just going to get the rights to the best-selling game of the decade. Turns out, it got so much more than that. It got a new best friend. After months of casually talki...

Despite the fact it won't be seeing any new content from the Better Together update, Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition is still trucking along with new content and updates. It's most recent update, version 1.5 brings with it new skins (fo...

I haven't played Minecraft in what feels like ages, but even as a non-player, I have to marvel at the lengths Mojang and Microsoft have taken to unify the game across platforms. The Nintendo Switch version is next in line to receive cross-p...

Minecraft's next patch, dubbed the "Aquatic" update, will be the final update for the last-gen versions of the game. The reason for this decision is that Microsoft has decided to focus its effort on improving the versions of the game where ...

Spin-off pseudo-sequel Terraria: Otherworld has officially been cancelled. In a post on the official Terraria forms, the developer Re-Logic has detailed that the quality of the product after three years of development was not where they wan...

We've known for a while that Switch owners would have to sign up for an Xbox Live Account to connect to the "Better Together" Minecraft system that would allow them to play with basically every other platform outside of PS4, but now we...

Minecraft still has not received the "Better Together" update on Nintendo platforms, but we're getting a step closer to that reality. Launched just today, people with a Switch or Wii U can dress up their characters as Master Chief from Halo...

The Minecraft-like Dragon Quest Builders will build its way over to the Nintendo Switch on February 9, 2018 for both the US and Europe. Both the physical and digital version will launch on the same day. Nintendo let the news out on both Twi...

Fan fiction. These two words, hair-raising to the average individual, nonetheless apply to a variety of things that do appeal to a large audience. Between the oddity of the Frasierverse, to these confusing Minecraft books for kids, to the r...

One of Minecraft's biggest updates ever will be arriving in the spring of 2018, which will host a complete overhaul of aquatic gameplay. Appropriately dubbed the "Update Aquatic," the ocean biome will now randomly generate objects like cora...

The Wii U version of Minecraft was basically put out to pasture when it wasn't included in the "Better Together" cross-play update. In summation, any version of the game that retains the "Edition" moniker will be limited to its own platform...

After working tirelessly since 2013, this Laputa: Castle in the Sky fan project in Minecraft is complete. You can view the fruits of human-to-digital labor on Mocchi Hajikura's YouTube channel, which showcase not only the actual castle...

It was one of the more peculiar announcements made during the last Nintendo Direct. The 3DS, a console many believe is already on its way out the door, is getting the biggest game in the world with the New Nintendo 3DS edition of Minecraft....

In 2014, Microsoft bought Mojang and Minecraft for a cool $2.5 billion. It was a monumental acquisition, one spurred on by Minecraft creator Markus Persson ultimately growing tired of navigating a company that had grown to that si...