Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things.
It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sun rise over a blocky ocean. It’s pretty. Brave players battle terrible things in The Nether, which is more scary than pretty. You can also visit a land of mushrooms if it sounds more like your cup of tea.
You can buy Minecraft for PC/Mac here, Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition on the XBLA Marketplace, and Minecraft: Playstation 3 Edition on the Playstation Network. Minecraft: Pocket Edition is available for iOS and Android.
Minecraft is coming out for Playstation 4, Playstation Vita, and Xbox One soon, but we don't have release dates for those versions yet.
So far 16,396,947 people bought the PC/Mac version of the game. Phew.
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Minecraft Update News
We update mojang.com with weekly snapshots to explain our latest updates to all versions of Minecraft.
- Minecraft 1.7.10about a month ago
- Realms is available world wide!2 months ago
- Minecraft 1.7.94 months ago
- Recent Security Issues4 months ago
- Minecraft Realms Now Available in the UK4 months ago
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- This week will do a push to get a 1.8 pre-release out. No guarantees, as always.a day ago
- I haven't tweeted much lately, so I almost forgot: Yesterday we got a full day with "Clean Code Uncle Bob" @unclebobmartin It was great!4 days ago
- The feeling when your favorite online sudoku app has been updated, and no longer is your favorite online sudoku app :( @dagensnyheter4 days ago
- Minecraft meets Mirror's Edge, https://t.co/ZIr4eLpwM5 (no shaders, the shadows are in the textures pack)7 days ago