Mojang News Articles
Wednesday13th Jan 2021
Random Play Among Us In Minecraft With This Blocky Skeld Map
We're pretty sure we saw Creeper vent
You know, Minecraft is pretty cool, but there's not nearly enough murder and betrayal. Or maybe we're playing it wrong. Either way, now you can get a healthy dose of learning not to trust anyone with this nifty recreation of the Among Us Skeld map, courtesy of builder Salestro. Here are the two maps...
Friday8th Jan 2021
Random This Super Mario-Themed Minecraft Parkour Level Looks Really Hard
Jump, man!
If you're a glutton for punishment, you probably don't think Minecraft is hard enough. You probably laugh in the face of Creepers. You eat Phantoms for breakfast. This Minecraft map, by builders midnighthoil and Bertibus, might be for you, you crazy son of a blaze. "Jump-and-Run" maps, or "JaR" as they're known to the community, are...
Tuesday5th Jan 2021
News Minecraft Earth, Mojang's Answer To Pokémon Go, Shuts Down In June
It's the end, er, man
Ah, it's a bad time to be an app that's all about going outside. We don't even know if we remember what "outside" is, actually. Is it the place where ducks are? Sadly, Minecraft Earth - a lovely app-game-thing that's all about exploration and, uh, fighting skeletons - has just a few months left to live, no thanks to COVID...
Monday4th Jan 2021
News This Free Minecraft Mod Lets You Grow A Garden
Stardew Valley who?
We've been discovering a lot of cool stuff while covering Minecraft's Community Celebration, during which players have been able to download a bunch of free stuff courtesy of Mojang. If you enjoyed the free Farm Life mod, you'll probably love this week's freebie:
Monday28th Dec 2020
News New Minecraft Freebie Lets You Fly To The Centre Of The Earth
Core blimey
In Terra Swoop Force, there is only one rule: Crash less than your friends. In this latest Minecraft freebie, given to players as part of Mojang's festive Community Celebration, the game has been transformed into an incredible flying course. TSF is actually part of a much larger story by the building team Noxcrew, known as "Geo Descent...
Tuesday22nd Dec 2020
News Switch Owners "Most Likely" To Own A Rival Console, 2020 Study Shows
Console also scores highly in 'bestselling' and 'worst game' categories
Our friends over at GamesIndustry.biz love crunching the numbers and turning them into lovely charts, and we love reading them. Their "Year In Numbers" for 2020 shows a pandemic-fuelled frenzy of video game spending, with a 21% increase in the value of the console market,...
Monday21st Dec 2020
News Minecraft Gets Rural With Free 'Farm Life' Mod
Corn on the cube
Mining in Minecraft is so 2020. We're all about farming, now. Put aside your pickaxe and pick up your shovel; it's time to get agricultural up in here. As part of Mojang's lovely Community Celebration, they've been showcasing the very best that Minecraft players have to offer by making a bunch of fan-made content totally free. This...
Friday18th Dec 2020
News Mojang's New Winter Event For Minecraft Dungeons Is Live
Foxes and blockses
Arctic foxes are the best animal in Minecraft, and they're FINALLY getting their time in the spotlight with Mojang's 'Chills and Thrills' seasonal event for Minecraft Dungeons. Starting today, December 18th, and running all the way past Christmas until the 30th, the Chills and Thrills event adds six new trials to the game, all...
Thursday10th Dec 2020
News The New Howling Peaks DLC For Minecraft Dungeons Is Out Now
New season pass and free update also released
Mojang has rolled out a brand new update for Minecraft Dungeons. There's the new DLC Howling Peaks, a new season pass and a free update including six new enchantments changing the way you can play the game. The Howling Peaks DLC is described as an "action-packed trek" to a mountain top, where a strange...
Wednesday9th Dec 2020
News Mojang Rolls Out Its Latest Update For Minecraft, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
Includes one major fix for the Switch version
Minecraft, confirmed as the most-watched video game in 2020 by YouTube, has just received a brand new update. This bumps the game up to version 1.16.200. While not everything applies to the Switch release, there is one major fix for this iteration of the game. Without further ado, here are the full...
News Minecraft Was The Most-Watched Game On YouTube In 2020
Also one of the most-watched live games
It's that time of year once again where companies are revealing stats of this and that. On the YouTube front, it's all about what's been watched the most. In terms of video games, Minecraft is still the top dog - with the game being viewed on the platform 201 billion times throughout the year. Roblox was in...
Tuesday24th Nov 2020
News Next DLC Update For Minecraft Dungeons Arrives On 9th December
As well as a new season pass and free content
Mojang has announced its Minecraft Dungeons Howling Peaks DLC will arrive next month on 9th December. It adds a new area, new weapons and artifacts, and of course, plenty of new enemies. It's your job to travel to the top of the mountain to take out the Tempest Golem corrupted by a shard from Orb of...
Wednesday18th Nov 2020
News Minecraft Dungeons Adds Cross-Platform Multiplayer In Its Latest Update
Full patch notes inside
Update [Wed 18th Nov, 2020 03:30 GMT]: Cross-platform play is now available in Minecraft Dungeons, here are the full patch notes via the official game site: 1.6.0.0 - November 17, 2020 Cross-Platform Play: - Team up with friends across consoles and PC! Create a multiplatform alliance and battle together with the new...
Sunday4th Oct 2020
And even more "amazing content" is coming next year
As fun as Minecraft Dungeons is, one thing missing is cross-platform multiplayer. Well before the game's release, the team at Mojang gave everyone a heads up about this and said it was "looking forward" to enabling this feature for free in a future update. So when can we expect it to arrive? At...
Friday2nd Oct 2020
News Mojang: Bringing Minecraft To Smash Is The Result Of An "Amazing Collaboration" With Nintendo
"we couldn’t be more excited"
Nintendo has maintained rosy relations with Microsoft for a number of years now, and obviously, this extends to the Xbox Game Studio, Mojang (aka the team behind Minecraft and more recently Minecraft Dungeons). We've just seen more proof of this with the announcement that Steve, Alex, Zombie and Enderman will all be...
News Talks About Minecraft In Smash Bros. Began "At Least" Five Years Ago
A long time coming
In Masahiro Sakurai's words - Minecraft, the best-selling game in the world, is coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. This wasn't a decision made overnight, though. Daniel 'Kappische' Kaplan - a former business developer for Mojang - recently revealed "talks" about bringing Steve and co to Nintendo's all-star fighting series...
Saturday26th Sep 2020
News Mojang To Reveal Next Big Minecraft Game Update At Its October Live Show
"you don't want to miss the beginning of the show"
This year's Minecon replacement - Minecraft Live - is taking place this year on 3rd October and promises to feature plenty of updates and scoops about the insanely popular sandbox game. That's not all, though. In addition to this, the team will reveal the next big Minecraft game update. Here's...
Wednesday19th Aug 2020
News Dinosaurs Come To Life In Minecraft's New Jurassic World DLC
"65 million years in the making"
Mojang has just released Jurassic World DLC for its popular survival crafting game Minecraft. You can purchase it now. Your job as a park manager is to keep a resort operating while crafting and training dinosaurs, building exhibits, and going on expeditions to discover dinosaur DNA. There are vehicles to drive and...
Wednesday12th Aug 2020
News Mojang's Latest Update For Minecraft Adds Ultra Tough Piglin Brute Mobs
Gold won't distract them
The 'Creeping Winter' DLC for Minecraft Dungeons has finally been announced and now Minecraft itself has been updated. This bumps the game up to version 1.16.20 and adds new features, makes some crafting interface changes, and resolves a bunch of issues. Perhaps the most exciting part of the update is the Piglin Brute - a...
Thursday2nd Jul 2020
News Minecraft Dungeons Version 1.3.2.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes
New features, balancing changes and bug fixes
Mojang has today released its first DLC pack for Minecraft Dungeons. Along with this is a free update for the game. Version 1.3.2.0 adds new features, makes some game balancing changes and also fixes a lot of bugs that have been affecting the experience. Here's the full update, courtesy of the official...
Saturday27th Jun 2020
News Mojang Launches Its First DLC Pack For Minecraft Dungeons Next Week
A free update is also on the way
As you might recall, Mojang's new Minecraft spin-off - Minecraft Dungeons - is receiving a new DLC pack next month. Now, in the latest post over on the Minecraft website, it's been officially confirmed "Jungle Awakens" will be arriving on 1st July. The first pack will include three new story missions and new...
Thursday18th Jun 2020
News The Latest Patch For Minecraft Dungeons Is Now Live - Includes A Lot Of Fixes
Four of them are only for the Switch
If you're a long-time fan of Minecraft, you'll probably know how Mojang is always releasing updates and patches for the game to make the experience even better. It seems the approach to its latest release Minecraft Dungeons is no different. Now that the game has been out for nearly a month now, Mojang has rolled...
Sunday7th Jun 2020
News Minecraft Dungeons Knocks Animal Crossing Off The Top Of The eShop Charts
Tom Nook has finally been dethroned
Minecraft is obviously an insanely popular game, so it's no surprise to hear Mojang's brand new spin-off Minecraft Dungeons is already selling incredibly well across multiple digital platforms. On the Nintendo front, it's taken the top spot from Animal Crossing: New Horizons on Switch eShop best sellers list in...
Saturday30th May 2020
News The First DLC Pack For Minecraft Dungeons Launches This July
The second one will follow "later this year"
Minecraft Dungeons might have only just been released earlier this week, but Mojang has already revealed its first DLC will be arriving at some point this July. It's called "Jungle Awakens" and will eventually be followed by the second DLC pack "Creeping Winter" later on this year. In the first...
Thursday21st May 2020
News Minecraft Dungeons Switch eShop File Size Revealed
Game launches next week
Next week sees the release of MInecraft Dungeons on the Switch and multiple other platforms such as Xbox Game Pass. If you're as excited as we are about it, then you might be eager to know how much space it'll take up on your hybrid system. According to Nintendo's official website, it'll require 3.2 GB of free space when it...
Tuesday19th May 2020
News Minecraft Sales Top 200 Million As Developer Mojang Gets A New Logo And Name (Well, Sort Of)
Impressive monthly player figures, too
In a post on Xbox.com Microsoft has announced that over 200 million copies of Minecraft have been sold to date. Not only that, but 126 million people are playing the game on a monthly basis. That's... a lot of people still playing Minecraft! This news, written by head of Mojang Studios Helen Chiang, follows...
Wednesday6th May 2020
News Minecraft Dungeons Was Originally Considered For 3DS And Inspired By Zelda
But it's now on every platform and is more like Diablo
One game we're looking forward to trying out later this month is Mojang's new title, Minecraft Dungeons. Although it's taken a lot of design cues from classic ARPG dungeon crawlers, the game's director Måns Olson recently shed some light on the beginnings of the project in an interview with...
Saturday18th Apr 2020
News Minecraft Dungeons Won't Let You Team Up With Random Players Online
And cross-platform play will not be available at launch
Minecraft Dungeons arrives on the Switch and multiple other platforms next month. It's inspired by classic dungeon crawlers and allows you to fight hordes of nasty mobs by yourself, or team up with three other players online or locally. According to the game's official FAQ, though, you won't be...
Friday10th Apr 2020
News Mojang Delayed Minecraft Dungeons To Deliver "A Better End Product"
And to ensure the team was proud of its work
Next month on 26th May, Minecraft Dungeons will finally be released on the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms including Xbox Game Pass. It was actually due to arrive this month but was delayed at the last minute. Why was this? Speaking to Eurogamer recently, Mojang's executive producer David...
Tuesday7th Apr 2020
News PowerA Releasing Minecraft Enhanced Wireless Controller For Switch, Out Later This Week
Just in time for Minecraft Dungeons
Have you been waiting for a Minecraft themed Pro Controller for the Nintendo Switch? Well, here's an enhanced wireless one from the accessory manufacturer PowerA. It's due out in the US later this week on 10th April, according to a listing on Amazon, and will be priced at $49.99. As you can be seen, it resembles...
