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Minecraft beta update 1.5 to include weather effects
Since everyone knows that Minecraft's raked in a cool $33 million to date, Notch has taken it upon himself to, in true rock star fashion, make it rain. In a series of Tweets this morning, Notch revealed that Minecraft beta update 1.5 will add precipitation to the game, which could possibly have gameplay implications like watering crops, putting out fires, filling small holes and moistening ...read more
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Minecraft mines $33 million in revenue
The unflappably popular indie game Minecraft is a mega huge hit. While still technically in alpha, the game has raked in millions. According to the Minecraft stats page, the game has 1,813,527 paying customers, which puts the total revenue for the game at over €23 million, or just about $33 million. Have you purchased Minecraft? What do you think of the game?
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Modern Warfare Will Stay With Activision
If you've been following the news regarding the lawsuit that has been heating up between Activision and its former employees, Jason West & Vince Zampella, you've likely heard that the pair are seeking the rights to the Modern Warfare franchise. Attorney, analyst, and all-around best-guesser, Michael Pachter thinks the pair have zero chance of securing these rights through legal ...read more
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Xbox Development Kit arrives with 'significantly reduced price,' Slim Sidecar
What's this, you ask? The next generation of Xbox 360 development, that's what. With a shockingly small amount of fanfare, Microsoft has ushered in a striking new Xbox Development Kit, which is purportedly designed to increase efficiency and reduce cost for Xbox 360 dev teams. Aside from boasting an undisclosed uptick in RAM, built-in flash memory, a more capacious hard drive and a slimmer form ...read more
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Former Infinity Ward heads seek to void original contract with Activision
The complex and claim-ridden story of Activision and Infinity Ward won't get any legal clarification for some time still, but that doesn't stop former IW heads Jason West and Vince Zampella from trying to annul their original contract with Activision. According to a GameSpot report, an amended complaint filed by the duo late last week alleges that Activision began development of "Modern Warfare ...read more
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Gmail april fools becomes a reality due to Kinect Hack
Gmail Motion, it was Google's april fools prank that pretended to allow e-mail users to navigate their account with the power of gesture controls. Feeling inspired by the prank, some folks got to work making it a reality! video is in the read more
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Stat tracking, wolves come to Minecraft this week
Indie hit Minecraft is due for an update this week, giving players a few more features to tinker around with. Creator Markus “Notch” Persson announced via Twitter that “The plan is to release 1.4 this week.” Patch 1.4 includes a stat-tracking system and the (rather random) addition of wolves. Because games can never have enough wolves. Looking past this update, Notch reveals on his ...read more
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Xbox360 new disc format gains 1GB
A highly placed development source has confirmed to Digital Foundry that the new disc format being beta tested in a new dashboard upgrade adds 1GB to the storage of Xbox 360 game discs. The maximum space allocated to game data on the current disc format is just 6.8GB out of a maximum of 7.95GB on a standard dual layer DVD, with over 1GB dedicated to a DVD-Video partition that also contained ...read more
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Lady Gaga donates $1.5 million to Zynga for Japan disaster relief
Being enormous fame monsters ourselves, we really appreciate it when others like us -- say, Lady Gaga -- use their monstrous fame for good. Which is exactly why we were so glad to see Ms. Gaga's massive $1.5 million contribution to Zynga's continued Japan relief efforts, half of which joined Zynga's donation, adding to the $2.5 million already raised in the past two weeks by the company's ...read more
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Kinect Hacks: Navigating your virtual apartment
Some Kinect Hacks seems to have some practical applications to us tech-savvy folks who don't have access to our own mad scientist laboratories. This ain't one of them: Researchers at the Dundalk Institute of Technology have hooked a Kinect up to a virtual apartment, as seen in the video found in the read more
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