While parents enjoyed watching Tom Cruise kick butt in his latest action extravaganza, children enjoyed reading about a wimpy kid.
Some youngsters learned how to build cities with Legos, others learned to build worlds in “Minecraft.”
Clearview and High Plains library districts released their top adult and children’s books and movies checked out from their respective branches in 2018. The children have spoken: They want to learn about “Minecraft.”
Six of the top 15 children’s nonfiction books checked out at Clearview Library District were handbooks, guides and even an encyclopedia related to the mega-popular game. A few Lego books were also on the list.
“Maybe we are raising a new generation of engineers and builders,” library director Ann Kling said.
As for children’s fictional books in Clearview, it was all about the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” saga. Seven of the 10 children’s books checked out at Clearview were from the author Jeff Kinney’s book saga that has inspired merchandise and movies. But the district’s top children’s book in 2018 was not the wimpy kid, but the boy wizard’s second year at Hogwarts in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”
The most-checked-out movie for adults at Clearview was “Molly’s Game,” starring Jessica Chastain as Olympic skier-turned-illegal poker player Molly Bloom and directed by Aaron Sorkin. “The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature” was the most popular children’s movie.
John Grisham’s “Camino Island” was the top adult fiction title of the year at Clearview, and Paul Kalanithi’s autobiography “When Breath Becomes Air” was the top nonfiction title among adults.
At High Plains Library District, the sixth installment in Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” was the top adult film checked out, and the TV series “SpongeBob SquarePants” was the top children’s video checked out. The most popular adult fiction title was “A Delicate Touch” and the most popular nonfiction title was Michelle Obama’s “Becoming.”
But people weren’t only checking out books and movies in 2018. Clearview Library District also allows patrons to rent “explore kits” that allow people to test out pieces of technology before spending money on it to own.
Explore kits are divided into two categories: The more popular ones can be checked out for a week, and the rest can be checked out for a couple weeks.
A Sphero Mini, an app-controlled robotic ball, was the most checked-out kit among the seven-day options, and the Electronic Snap Circuits electronic toy was the most popular among the other category.
The troubled production of Minecraft: The Movie appears to have gained some forward momentum with the hiring of Jim Berney as visual effects supervisor according to a report by Discussing Film. Berney has previously worked on films such as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Polar Express, and Aquaman.View image on Twitter
Steve Carell was thought by many to be involved back in 2016 but little has been said on his connection to the film since then. Little is known about Minecraft: The Movie at this stage and it’s even unclear if it will be animated, live-action, or a mix of the two.
Microsoft purchased the popular Minecraft video game franchise in late-2014 and has since continued to develop the brand with continued updates to the base game, support for crossplay between most version of it, loads more Minecraft merchandise, a Telltale Games video game, and even Minecraft-themed Xbox One consoles and controllers.
Over the weekend, popular online game Minecraft successfully pulled off a virtual music festival featuring performances by over 50 up-and-coming artists and producers. Fire Festivaldrew in thousands of users over two days, and created a one of a kind multi-platformexperience fit for the digital era.
Outside of being a free virtual festival users could engage with from the comfort of their own home, Fire Festival gave users the additional flexibility of “attending” from three unique digital platforms. The event’s website allowed users to stream to the performances online. Fire Festival’s Discord chat allowed users to listen to the music and engage in conversation with fellow users. Meanwhile, their virtual grounds hosted in Minecraft gave attendees the ability to navigate a robust virtual landscape, see and hear each performance, and engage with fellow attendees in a digital setting.
Despite being a seven-year-old game, Minecraft and its community continue to push innovation. The Microsoft-owned brand continues to support over 91 million active monthly users on its platform. With such an enormous user base, brands such as Fire Festival arguably have the potential to disrupt a key revenue stream of the music business in the future.
One of the festival’s organizers, SLEEPYCATT (real name Max Schramp), has shared recordings of each Fire Festival set via SoundCloud. Listen to the performances from the largest virtual music festival to date below.
KENNETT SQUARE, Pa., Jan. 28, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — via OTC PR WIRE — Good Gaming Inc. (OTCQB: GMER) (The “Company”) is pleased to announce their relationship and agreement with esports team Forknife as they look to increase their Minecraft exposure.
Esports team Forknife is comprised of team members MrTop5, Bodil40, Shadical, Zeph, and Deadlox. Collectively, the team boasts a following of five million YouTube subscribers who are passionate about their esport gameplay.
Good Gaming Inc. is currently revamping their Minecade server in preparation for team Forknife’s launch into the Good Gaming Inc. server, which is anticipated to begin during the first week of February. The Company also plans to work with team Forknife on a social media campaign to promote the Good Gaming Minecraft Minecade server.
Eric Brown, Good Gaming Inc. COO, stated, “We are very pleased to have members of the esport team Forknife on board as our latest Minecraft influencers to utilize our Minecade server for gameplay. After careful consideration and several discussions, we realize they truly understand the importance of cross marketing (through various social media platforms) and our goal of making Good Gaming’s Minecraft servers the number one Minecraft servers in the world. We look forward to working with them as they promote their gameplay on our servers and work with our talented team to create the latest and most exciting Minecraft gameplay available anywhere in the world.”
Good Gaming Inc. is a leading competitive gaming and social network platform targeting over 250 million esports players and participants worldwide who want to communicate with each other, develop strategies, and compete at novice, competitive and professional levels. Good Gaming Inc. has taken a strategic multifaceted approach in the esports industry with products and services ranging from multiple Minecraft servers, a proprietary tournament platform, high school esports leagues and soon-to-come virtual reality centers. The esports industry continues to experience exponential growth going from $500 million to $1.2 billion over the last two years while industry analysts forecast a $5 billion global industry by 2020. Good Gaming Inc. seeks to create and exploit opportunities as the industry allows.
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4J Studios has released a brand new Minecraft update version 1.85 for PS4. Here are the patch notes for this new update.
Minecraft support has been dropped for the legacy platforms and the last patch was released just at the end of the year. Since then, PS4 is the only active platform that is getting support lately while the rest of the modern platforms get incremental updates. The new Minecraft update version 1.85 is out now and it mostly consists of bug fixes. One of the issues that were resolved related to the game crashing when loading the older worlds.
You can read the full patch notes for Minecraft update version 1.85 below.
Minecraft Update Version 1.85 Patch Notes For PS4
Fix for a Crash when loading older worlds.
Fix for Large Chests appearing as two Chests during Multiplayer regular gameplay.
Fix for MCCE #8573 – Double Chests can still be opened if partially “blocked”.
Fix for Bamboo not replacing Tall Grass and Double Tall Grass.
Fix for Missing Recipe: Lapis Block to 9 Lapis Lazuli.
Fix for Missing Recipe: Rose Bush to Rose Red Dye.
Fix for Missing Recipe: Peony to Pink Dye.
Fix for Potion of Slow falling not affecting players while Elytra Gliding.
Fix for MCCE #7060 – Water can’t be placed in the End.
Fix for players being unable to pick up their thrown trident if they die before picking it back up.
Fix for a Riptide Trident not resetting the players fall counter.
