Who would have thought that an MTV series based on a 1980’s Michael J. Fox comedy would have such legs. While Teen Wolf may have struck many an as odd choice for the basis of a supernatural series, nobody can argue with the success its had, and will continue to have, now that’s it’s been renewed for another season.
During their yearly panel at San Diego Comic-Con yesterday it was confirmed that Teen Wolf will be back for Season 6. SDCC has been a frequent location for the Teen Wolf crew to announce new seasons, a fairly impressive feat considering new seasons of the show have traditionally premiered in June. They’re only three episodes into Season 5 so they must be confident that the current season will not falter in the show’s ongoing success. While ratings have dropped slightly this season the show is still a strong performer for the network and in cable TV overall, bringing in around 1.5 million viewers.
Six seasons is a solid run for any show, and since there was no announcement made that Season 6 would be the last, it will be interesting to see if we get a Season 7 announcement a year from now. Unless something abysmal happens in the ratings between now and then it’s likely. It was also not announced how many episodes would be in Season 6. Most seasons of the show have been limited to 12 but Season 3 was 24 episodes long and Season 5 is being broadcast in two parts with a total of 20 episodes.
The success of Teen Wolf has lead MTV to turn other film’s into series including the most recent Scream series, which, like Teen Wolf takes inspiration, and little else, from its originator (many of the stars of Teen Wolfhadn’t even seen the film when they started filming). Scream however has not seen the early success that Wolf saw, a testament to whatever lighting in a bottle the creators have apparently caught here.
In addition to the Season 6 info the panel also premiered a new trailer that focuses on the second half of the current Season 5, check it out below:
While no date for Season 6 of Teen Wolf was announced it’s likely about 11 months away. With plenty of Season 5 left however fans will not be left wanting any time soon. Teen Wolf airs Monday nights on MTV.
Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition was released on July 29, 2015 and runs on the universal Windows 10 platform, being an adaptation of Minecraft Pocket Edition, which means that it has the same features, but it contains a few additions and it can be played on VR headsets such as HoloLens. The game costs $9.99 on the Windows Store, no matter if it’s played on computers or mobile devices. Soon, according to reports, Minecraft for this platform will receive a new update.
Lately, after Microsoft has purchased Minecraft, the game has received new features for Windows 10 (desktop), Xbox and PS4 consoles, and now, the developers will focus on the mobile edition. Minecraft Pocket Edition is available for Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile and, according to CNet, the game will allow players to use items called command blocks and “mods”, which will offer “more extensive customization to the game on mobile devices.”
Jens Bergensten, the lead developer of Minecraft, told CNet that “Using command blocks, you can add new Minecraft rules that do things like teleport players to a different part of the virtual world, reward them with a powerful sword, confine them to a jail, summon a flying pig into existence and obliterate all dangerous zombies”. He explained also how the developers will put this plan into practice: “Usually what is the most time consuming is to adapt the user interface for touch and gamepad, especially considering it’s a bit more cumbersome to type text”.
Bergensten has added that the team will need to create a system that will support modding for other platforms and that the company is researching options. Unfortunately, the lead developer hasn’t mentioned when the upgrade for Minecraft Windows 10 and Pocket Edition will be possible, and the only thing we can do right now is wait for an official announcement.
If mods will be supported, then there will be many interesting features introduced in Minecraft. For example, players will be able to fly on dragons and the game’s graphics will be boosted.
You know you’re addicted to Minecraft if you’ve screamed any of this before.
Minecraft– the video game that has well and truly taken over YouTube. We’ve all playedSlenderandAmnesia; we’ve all been spooked byFive Nights At Freddy’s; we’ve even playedElsa Goes To The Dentistfor a laugh. But we’re STILL coming back toMinecraft! So, for anybody who thinks they’re the biggestMinecraftfan in the entire world, then here’s a way to prove it – if you’ve ever screamed/shouted/screeched any of the thoughts below, then we’re happy to tell you’re than you’re 100% a hardcore Minecraft player.
Let us know how you do in the comments and don’t forget to tag your friends to let them know you’re a Minecraft MLG.
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Please stop calling it ‘online lego’.
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Why the hell did I just make eye contact with that Enderman?!
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Here’s a fun idea: A literal game of ‘The Floor Is Lava’
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Why can’t I build anything more impressive than a shack of cr*p?
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Don’t worry, I didn’t want to find any diamonds this month anyway…
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Oh god.. did I just hear a SHHHHHHHH?!
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Damn, I went exploring and lost my house… AGAIN.
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Why did I just spend hours making a cool new trap room when I’m playing single player?!
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If I can hold the heaviest objects in the world, why can’t I jump over that fence?!
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Is Minecraft seriously nearly 7 years old?!
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Yup, I totally meant to just fall in lava and lose all my stuff. It’s cool.
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*prints out the Minecraft periodic table to figure out WTF I’m doing*
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Yes, I finally finished building my dream home… OH GOD NO NOT GRIEFERS!!
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Thanks Creeper, I didn’t like my new, hand-crafted and painstakingly-reimagined Hogwarts castle anyway.
Minecraft community’s latest tool randomly connects players to one of over 3,000 servers
Above: Minecraft is getting a new way to help you discover multiplayer servers.
Image Credit: Mojang
Running into a room full of strangers is not something I would advise in the real world, but that’s what video games are for.
Mineboredis a new community-created tool that enables Minecraft players on PC to randomly join one of over 3,000 live multiplayer servers. It is as simple as entering “play.minebored.com” into the block-building survival game’s “Server Address” field and then hitting “Refresh.” Minebored will then quickly return a joinable game. If you don’t like what you find, just go back and hit Refresh once again. This could enable Minecraft players to start discovering fun (but lesser known) servers populated by other people. It’s also an example of how Minecraft’s fans have kept the game fresh with new features that even developer Mojang and publisher Microsoft are not working on. In a gaming market worth $99.3 billion, that kind of community support is what sets apart a forgettable release from a phenomenon like Minecraft.
“The goal [with Minebored] is to be able to discover new servers — small, medium, and big — without ever leaving your launcher,” Reddit user and Minebored creator Unsquarableswrote in a post. “It’s still in early beta, but works pretty well overall.”
Above: An example of searching for a random server using Minebored.
Minebored will move forward by adding new servers to its lists. The project may also even remove some of the more well-known servers to increase the likelihood that people will come across something smaller and new. But that will require a lot of manual work because the team responsible for Minebored has not built any automation tools.
“We don’t currently have any way of submitting new servers to the database,” wrote Unsquarables. “But you can message me any new ones, and it will be added in the next update.”
Finally, Minebored will also get more options in the future. Instead of just any random server, players will have the option to use something like “pvp.minebored.com” or “factions.minebored.com” to only get player-versus-player and faction servers, respectfully. Again, that will require some extra work by the Minebored creators.
“We will need a lot of help curating those and keeping them clean,”wroteUnsquarables.
Everyone’s heard of the LEGO-like world-building game Minecraft and its creator Notch, but how many other games by the famous billionaire developer do you know?
You’d be hard-pressed to find someone who’s not heard of the block-building procedurally generated open world game Minecraft, originally created by Swedish developer Markus “Notch” Persson.
With a playable build first publicly available in 2009 and a full version released in 2011, it quickly became both one of the best-selling games of all time as well as one of the most influential, turning the independent developer into a billionaire when he sold the company toMicrosoftin 2014.
ButMinecraftisn’t the only game that Notch has developed. Both before, during and after the release of Minecraft, Notch developed smaller, free indie games, usually for various game-making jams and competitions.
Here we’ve gathered a selection of some of the Minecraft creator’s lesser-known work, and where you can go to play them (if you can still do so).
1. The ‘4k’ Series’
The 4k series of games was Notch s attempts at creating a series of games taking up less than 4kb of space
Starting from 2005 and ending in 2010, Notch created at least one game for theJava 4kgame-making competition almost every year. With an outcome of nine games, most of these games were clones of other games (including Mega Man, Left 4 Dead, Lemmings and Sonic) with the aim of creating a game that took up less than 4kb of space on a hard drive.
Blast Passage was Notch’s fan-game mix of Bomberman and Gauntlet
Originally created in 2008, Blast Passage is an interesting mix of two video game classics – Bomberman and Gauntlet.
Featuring four-player local multiplayer, you must navigate monster-filled dungeons by collecting keys and dropping bombs to exterminate your enemies.
Basically, if you’ve ever played Gauntlet or Bomberman, you know what you’re in for here. You canplay the game in your browser hereif you want to give it a go!
3. Bunny Press
Bunny Press has you running away from advancing walls of doom – and also there’s bunnies
Released in 2009 for the Ludum Dare 14 game jam,Bunny Presswas created within 48 hours by Notch, with the game having to adhere to an ‘advancing wall of death’ theme. As such, this game is a violent puzzle game where you try to get to the end of the level whilst avoiding obstacles. Oh, and of course there’s bunnies.
Unfortunately, this is another case of a game being lost to time, thanks to Mojang’s site wiping all of Notch’s smaller games when the company was sold to Microsoft.
4. The Europa Arcology Incident
The Europa Arcology Incident was Notch s attempt at a sci-fi rogue-like game
The Europa Arcology Incident,was created by Notch for the Ludum Dare 16 competition in 2009 in just 48 hours. The game was a sci-fi rogue-like game and was well received.
Metagun is Notch’s meta game where you shoot guys who try to shoot you
Created for the Ludum Dare 18 competition in 2010,Metagunwas another game created in under 48 hours. You play as a man who fires a gun that fires men who fire guns at you, and you’ll need their bullets to destroy obstacles and enemies in your way.
With a great concept fairly-well executed – especially given the time constraints – this is a good example to prove how skilled of a game developer Notch really is (if Minecraft isn’t enough for you).
Although the original Ludum Dare upload no longer exists, a Reddit user has postedthe game’s source code here.
6. Prelude of the Chambered
Notch’s game ‘Prelude of the Chambered’ is a first-person dungeon crawler game
Created for the Ludum Dare 21 competition in 2011 (the same year that Minecraft saw its initial full release),Prelude of the Chamberedis another game developed by Notch in less than 48 hours.
The game is a short first-person dungeon crawler, where you explore a dungeon for power-ups and keys to navigate further and collect treasure. Also, you can punch bats, which is always a bonus in video games.
Minicraftmay look and sound familiar, and for good reason – this surprisingly complete game was developed for the Ludum Dare 22 competition and borrows several elements from Minecraft.
You roam around a world greatly resembling the original Legend of Zelda game, chopping down tress, mining rocks, fighting zombies and building shelters as you aim to ‘kill the only other sentient being in the world, making sure you’ll be alone forever.
Notch’s game ‘Last Minute Christmas Chopping’ is his Christmas-themed arcade game
Created for the Ludum Dare 28 competition in December 2013, Notch decided to go with a particularly festive themed game for his entryLast Minute Christmas Chopping.
Playing as Santa, you must run through the forest and gather as much wood for your elves as you can within one minute. The game is still playable via your browserhere if you’d like to have a go!
9. Drowning in Problems
Drowning in Problemsis perhaps the weirdest pick of the bunch here, but interesting in its own right. A minimalistic game, you’re first presented with a sentence reading ‘there is nothing’.
A deep game cleverly using the competition’s theme of ‘beneath the surface’, the game sees you growing in age with your list of problems and needs growing larger as the game continues.
Drowning in Problems is more difficult to explain than it is to play, but it’s certainly worthgiving a go in your browser here, if not just to see the diversity of Notch’s games.
10. Shambles
Notch’s game ‘Shambles’ is a first-person shooter with zombies
One of the more recent smaller projects from Notch was Shambles, a short first-person shooter game released in 2013.
In Shambles, you roam through zombie-ridden streets, firing away at the undead intruders whilst attempting to avoid police and spare innocent civillians.
Created for the 7DFPS game jam, this game’s graphics are fairly reminiscent of Duke Nukem 3D – though the game is fairly less complete than that, as your aim here is simply to survive for as long as possible.
