Minecraft: Console Editions is bringing in more features since its last update in October. In case you missed it, the Mincraft October Update brought in stuff like banners, beets and polar bears but the next update is set to bring in some holiday spirit with players being able to face new mobs,…

Minecraft 1.9, commonly known as the ‘Combat Update’, is now live. Mojang have really put the work in with this one with various game changing mechanics and updates focused around, you guessed it - combat. No less than was expected with it being nearly a year and a half since…

In a completely left field announcement, Mojang have announced that they have partnered with Telltale Games to bring a narrative driven Minecraft experience, called Minecraft: Story Mode, to all devices under the sun sometime in 2015. As seems to be the case with most Telltale games, Minecraft: Story Mode will…

The largely popular sandbox/survival game Minecraft is now officially available for download on both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 Marketplaces. It is currently priced at $19.99/€18.99 for those who hadn't purchased the game on previous systems. For the many who had previously purchased it can upgrade to the "next-gen" version for only $4.99/€3.99.…

Minecon will be hitting London in Spring of next year, according to Mojang Chief Operating Officer Vu Bui in an announcement on the Mojang website. Whilst there is no confirmed date or venue, Vu Bui iterated the company’s desire to host Minecon annually – but buffed this statement with a…

  In the true spirit of the season, Mojang is offering all it's current customers, who have a copy of Scrolls an extra copy to gift a friend. The card based game from the creators of Minecraft was released in an open beta state in June of this year. Scrolls…

Owen Hill, from Mojang, recently posted a message on the PlayStation Blog: "Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition will be available to download from PSN on December 17th in North America. Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition and Minecraft: PS Vita Edition are also being developed, but we don’t have release dates yet. Expect…

Everyone knows about Minecraft, the indie smash hit that everyone owns twice over. 2PlayerProductions has now made the uncut version of their documentary about the game available for free on Youtube. Minecraft: The Story Of Mojang is a feature-length documentary that was originally funded on Kickstarter back in 2011. 2Playerproductions…

In an interview with it24.se Mojang co-founder Jakob Porser has said that Scrolls, the studios second release after Minecraft, may move to free-to-play due to underwhelming sales. Porser stated “We do not close [the door] for making Scrolls a free game in the future if that’s what is needed to attract…

 Mojang, the company behind Minecraft have brought in a new vice president, Jonas Martensson who had previously been head of an online gambling company.  CEO Carl Manneh has commented; "A few months back I had a casual conversation in the office kitchen talking about the insane amount of things going on at…

Ordnance Survey, which is the national mapping agency for Great Britain and one of the largest producers of maps in the world, has decided to recreate mainland Great Britain Minecraft. In an interview with Gamasutra, Gemma Nelson revealed that the Ordnance Survey Labs team has been "exploring the possibilities of new ideas…

Mojang's Cobalt, which is the companies first 3rd part published game, will be coming to both Xbox One and 360. The title which is currently available as an alpha on PC is a 2D shooter where "Players can slide, climb, roll and jump smoothly through levels whilst shooting and deflecting projectiles…

Mojang's Minecraft has now reached more than 8 million combined sales on the Xbox 360 and has now been top of the UK charts for three weeks running. The only other games to have achieved the same this year are The Last of Us, Dead Island: Riptide and BioShock Infinite.…

In what seems like a match made in heaven, the survival-horror aspect of Minecraft just got a little more post-outbreak.Telltale has released new screenshots of the Walking Dead skin pack for Minecraft: Xbox 360 edition. So far given the title of Skin Pack 5, the pack will feature 7 new…

  Scrolls is coming soon! Scrolls open beta will finally be starting from June 3rd! We at VGU have been looking forward to this game for a while as you may remember from our playthrough a little while ago! You can buy Scrolls for £13/€15/$20 (depending on where you live) and…

Mojang have just announced the immenant arrival of Minecraft 2.0. Hopefully it is scheduled to be released within the next two months after spending the past two years in development, and is set to "bring block simulation games to the next level." The new game is set to completely overhaul…

Grab your Diamond Swords and your best armour - the End in Minecraft is getting ever nearer. The Minecraft Xbox 360 trailer is now live, and the update itself is almost through bug fixing. The trailer focuses on finding and slaying the Enderdragon, but there are a whole bunch of…

You may have heard some details about the upcoming Redstone update for Minecraft already, but in case you haven't then you had better keep on reading. This new update enables exciting additions such as the Redstone Comparator and Redstone Blocks, making your constructions just that little bit more awesome. Minecraft…

Who would have thought that a simple crafting and survival game would have been this popular? The hit game Minecraft has hit 15 million sales in 2012, with 1.2 million of those being in the gift-giving Christmas week alone. The sales for 24th December to the 30th December alone were…

“Scrolls” is a new game being developed by Mojang, better known for the company that created Minecraft. It is set to be released on PC, Mac, iOS and Android and will allow you to battle players around the world using your personal Scrolls deck. Yes, Scrolls is a card game…