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“Minecraft: Pocket Edition” beta v.0.13.0 along with the Redstone Circuits update is now available for android smartphones.
“It’s worth mentioning that all of these features are coming to ‘Minecraft: Pocket Edition’ and the ‘Minecraft Windows 10 Edition’ beta in the near future,” according to Mojang’s statement reported in Tech Times.
Mojang, the Minecraft game developer strongly suggests that players need to secure a backup of their existing worlds. There are three requirements a player needs to have to join the test; first, a player must have an android device capable of running the “Minecraft: Pocket Edition.”
Once the player clicked the “become a tester” button on the application, the game will be installed automatically into the phone and will take several days to show up on the device.
The “Minecraft: Pocket Edition” along with the Redstone Circuit update includes the Redstone wire, levers, buttons, pressure plates, torch, lamp, tripwires, trapped chests and detector rails. There are also new wooden doors and a “cute fluffy crop-eating bunnies.” The Stonecutter feature is gone from the game, according to Mojang.
There are several modification within the game including a game tutorial for both reporting a bug and how to make an existing world back-up. The Redstone can be used to control trapdoors, doors, TNT and rails, also longer item tooltip visibility time, stack count labels has a bigger and more readable font and ghast and slimes have the ability to respawn in the game and a lot more listed in their website, vie the reads in Mojang.
The game developer offered their blog forum for the players to get updates about the game and future announcements for the “Minecraft: Pocket Edition,” according to Tech Times.
Yes, finally! After all this time, we finally got the feature most of us have wanted to see in Minecraft: Pocket Edition [$6.99] for months now; the stonecutter is finally history! Okay, there’s also another relatively-important feature in 0.13 beta, Redstone Circuits! The truth is that usable redstone has been on the top of almost every MCPE player’s list since the game first came out on mobile, so I’m glad to see that we are almost there. According to the changelog, we are getting redstone wire, redstone torch, redstone lamp, levers, buttons, pressure plates, tripwires, trapped chests, and detector rails. As you can see from the changelog, we aren’t getting pistons, repeaters, and other advanced blocks, yet. According to the developers, those should be coming later on.
I’m not surprised at this omission because pistons have been known to be tricky little things to get right, so I’d rather get some redstone stuff now. In addition to redstone, we are getting cute crop-eating bunnies, new wooden doors, faster boats with different handling (finally!), slimes and ghasts now actually spawn, hunger restored by food items now matches the PC version, skeletons will run away from wolves, and a few more tweaks here and there. As is always the case, the beta is only out on Android at the moment, but recent updates have seen limited beta period, so I’m hoping it will hit iOS soon. If you want to join the beta, go here.
For all you Diary of A Wimpy Kid fanatics, this piece of information will make your day.
American author-illustrator Jeff Kinney has launched the tenth book of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.Titled, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School, the book is yet another personal journal of Greg Heffley, the main protagonist of the series.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series traces the life and struggles of Greg, a young boy who inadvertently lands into trouble all the time.The latest addition to the series, will be about how Greg, a middle-school weakling goes “old school” as his entire town goes electronics-free.
How the boy recovers from the massive challenge of living a life sans electronics and ultimately goes back to his roots lies at the crux of the book.
Through his latest book Kinney has tried to raise the much-debated question of whether life was better in the old days or is far better now?
As reported by PTI, the book ” follows Heffley as he goes on a weeklong field trip to a farm and deals with a generation gap between the kids and their chaperones. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, Greg looks for a way to survive. ”
Published by Puffin Books, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School has a dramatic and basic black cover the reason for which, according to Kinney is that he, ” wanted to bring things back to basics. And nothing says ‘Old School’ for a cartoonist more than black, the colour of ink ”
The book will hit the bookstores in more than 90 countries, including India on November 3.
Writer Jeff Kinney has sold more than 150 million copies of his book series, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid.” Creating one of the most lucrative franchises in the traditional publishing industry is just one of several unlikely pages in the book of Kinney’s career.
“I really wanted to be a newspaper cartoonist,” Kinney said in an interview with On the Money. “I didn’t have the chops to make it.”
Kinney studied computer science in college and worked at Funbrain as a designer of educational games. The semi-autobiographical and nostalgic cartoons were originally posted on Funbrain’s company website in 2006.
He spent 8 years developing the first-person, illustrated diary of middle schooler Greg Heffley before he brought it to an editor.
“I wrote ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid’ as a nostalgia piece, looking back like ‘The Wonder Years,'” said Kinney, referring to the 1980s TV series set in the 1960s. “But I found out that I was a kids’ author.”
Kinney’s first book was published in 2007, at an initial run of just 15,000 copies. Since then, “Wimpy Kid” has become a brand valued at nearly half a billion dollars – thanks to the books, licensed products and three feature films that have earned $225 million at the box office.
Last year, the Amulet children’s book imprint of publisher Abrams printed 5.5 million copies of the series’ 9th book.
The “Wimpy Kid” books are sold in 90 countries globally and have been translated into 45 different languages. Even The Vatican got in on the hype, releasing a Latin version of “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” earlier this year. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old School,” the series’ tenth book, will be available November 3rd, with Kinney embarking on a global book tour for promotion.
“Sometimes I sit across from a kid in Madrid, Spain or in Brazil and we don’t share a language or a culture, but we share these stories,” he said. “I think it’s that we have childhood in common, it’s a universal language.”
An ‘Unlikely’ book store owner
The author’s newest chapter is as owner-operator of an independent brick and mortar bookstore in his town of Plainville, Massachusetts. Dubbed An Unlikely Story, the three-story building opened this spring, after a labor of love and a multi-million dollar investment from Kinney.
The store will now join the 2,000-plus independent bookstores currently operating in the U.S., according to the American Booksellers Association.
“Bookstores usually tend to run at 2 to 5 percent margin, so you’re not going to get rich off it,” said Kinney. “People are coming from miles around, even from overseas, to visit this store.”
Kinney’s huge global readership may have helped turn An Unlikely Story into a destination, but the store has thousands of books available beyond the Wimpy Kid brand.
“This small town is choked with traffic and we have police details, it makes me feel that there is a need for this,” he told CNBC. “They’re not there for my books, they’re there because of books.”
Neil Nitin Mukesh, who stars in Sooraj Barjatya’s next, claims that he has been offered a role in American TV series ‘Game of Thrones’.
Neil Nitin Mukesh is already reaping the benefits of working in the Salman Khan starrer Diwali release Prem Ratan Dhan Payo.
Mirror has learnt that the film’s action director Greg Powell, who’s worked on high profile Hollywood projects like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Fast and Furious 6 and the Harry Potter series, and is currently the stunt director of Game of Thrones, has offered Neil a role in the hit show.
“Greg has directed two sword-fighting sequences in PRDP for which I had to train for over a month in order to get the stance and wrist movements right. He seemed pretty impressed with all the hard work I put in and made the offer when we were shooting for the climax scene a few months ago,” Neil, who is a huge GoT fan, says excitedly, adding that someone from the show’s production team is expected to come down by the month-end for further discussions.
According to Neil, his role in the show will be quite similar to the one in PRDP. “I play a royal in both and also feature in combat scenes,” he says. The actor is also all praise for Greg, “He is extremely humble and professional. I feel honoured that I got to work with him,” he says, adding that the Khaleesi, Jon Snow and the Imp are his favourite characters from the show.
Apart from its graphic violence, GoT is known for its nudity and sex. Is Neil comfortable with it? “I have gone nude for Jail, so why not for this? I am okay with it if it’s required for my character. I am not intimidated by it as an actor,” he concludes.
