by Stone Marshall | Jul 30, 2015 | Minecraft News |
Update: This is still rolling out, so don’t panic if you can’t see the button on your account page yet! Check back later!
Hello!
Windows 10 – Microsoft’s shiny new operating system – launches tomorrow. As announced at MINECON 2015 a few weeks ago it features a brand-new Edition of Minecraft. We’re calling it Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta.
If you’re one of the 20 million(ish) players who already own Minecraft for PC/Mac, you get the new version for free. Completely free!
To download your copy, first log into your Mojang account (My password is significantly more complex than those dots so don’t bother trying, criminal person).
Next, click the “Redeem” button on your account page, sign into your Microsoft account, and follow the instructions that follow. That’s it! You’ll be playing Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta in a jiffy.
Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta will be available to download in the Windows 10 Store.
Have fun with Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta, kind crafters! And enjoy fiddling about with your swanky new operating system!
Get Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta for free!
by Stone Marshall | Jul 30, 2015 | Minecraft News |
Hope they take a good look at Terraria
When not diving into their Scrooge McDuck-style pools of money, the folks over at Mojang have announced they’re working on Minecraft 1.9, dubbed The Combat Update. Three guesses as to what it’s going to be about.
Alongside the obvious and so greatly needed changes to melee combat; shields, new unannounced blocks, potions; and subtitles are going to be brought into the game in the near future. Oh and you’ll be able to respawn the Ender Dragon. Yeah, that thing everyone fought once and then totally forgot it existed.
The first snapshot of 1.9 has been released, however a lot of the stuff Mojang is promising hasn’t been added just yet. Interestingly, what is new in the snapshot isn’t being discussed, so venture forth and discover:
“I’m not going to tell you what’s new, but I will tell you what isn’t new… yet.”
You can read the full announcement on Mojang’s website.
Is this enough to get you back into Minecraft? Did you ever even stop?
Minecraft 1.9 is coming to cut your head off in The Combat Update, first snapshot released
by Stone Marshall | Jul 29, 2015 | Awesome Book News |
After a long process filled with casting woes and a battle between studios, Marvel and Sony have officially crowned their new Spider-Man. Nineteen-year-old Tom Holland of The Impossible and the upcoming In the Heart of the Sea is joining the MCU and will make his first appearance in Captain America: Civil War, alongside Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Chadwick Boseman and a whole slew of new and returning characters. To welcome his new comrade into the Marvel fold, Evans took to Twitter to congratulate the young actor.
Evans is busy reprising his role as the star-spangled Avenger on the set of Civil War. As Holland is making his way to work alongside this Marvel movie vet, Evans took some time for a celebratory tweet. And, as opposed to all the haters responding to it, the actor seems pretty stoked to have Holland come aboard. According to reports, Holland had the opportunity to work alongside Evans during his extended audition process.
The race was said to be down to Holland and Charlie Rowe. Thankfully, Rowe was a good sport about the matter and he also congratulated Holland on landing the gig.
On Wednesday, Marvel made the official announcement that Holland would succeed Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield as the next live-action web-slinger in a feature film. We don’t know too much about what to expect from this new iteration of the superhero, but the reason such a young actor was cast was to really honor the roots of Spidey being an unpolished, self-trained high school superhero. According to the latest rumors and reports, it looks like this Spider-Man will only have small role to play in Civil War. Nevertheless, Feige said Holland had to immediately report for duty on the set.
Asa Butterfield, Judah Lewis, Matthew Lintz, Charlie Plummer and Charlie Rowe were also up for Spider-Man at one point or another, but it was thanks to a slew of screen tests that helped Marvel and Sony finalize their decision. Downey was flown in to help test his chemistry with the young hopefuls, as Tony Stark reportedly shares scenes with the wall-crawler.
Captain America: Civil War takes its story straight from the comic book arc of the same name. After an international incident involving the Avengers, the governments of the world band together to try and regulate superhuman activity. This new political move splits the Avengers in half into Team Captain America, which opposes the action, and Team Iron Man, which supports it. The film also features the return of Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Paul Bettany, Elizabeth Olsen, Anthony Mackie, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd and Frank Grillo, as well as newbies like Boseman, Martin Freeman, Daniel Bruhl and William Hurt. After making his first appearance in Civil War, Holland will go off to star in his own Spider-Man movie, which is set for a theatrical release on July 28, 2017.
Captain America: Civil War hits theaters on May 6, 2016.
Chris Evans Reacts To The Spider-Man Casting
by Stone Marshall | Jul 29, 2015 | Minecraft News |
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia star Rob McElhenney will direct the Minecraft film; Fast & Furious 6 actor Joe Taslim will appear in Star Trek Beyond; Angelina Jolie will direct a film for Netflix; an Independence Day: Resurgence writer will adapt The Reckoners book series for the big screen; and Roland Emmerich’s gay rights drama Stonewall has secured a fall 2015 release date.
Mojang – the video game developer for the hugely successful Minecraft – has announced that Rob McElhenney will direct the upcoming film adaptation of the game. McElhenney is best known for his role of Mac on hit comedy series It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, which is expected to return for season 11 this fall or early 2016.
The Minecraft film will mark McElhenney’s first directorial feature, though he has been an instrumental creative force on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. In addition to his acting role, he has served as a creator, developer, executive producer, writer, and director on the show.
Joe Taslim – who appeared as a minor villain alongside Luke Evans in Fast & Furious 6 – will reunite with director Justin Lin for next year’s Star Trek Beyond. While details about the actor/martial artist’s role are scant, it is said to give him plenty of screen time with the new villain, played by Idris Elba.
Taslim also previously appeared in director Gareth Evans’ action extravaganza The Raid: Redemption, but Star Trek marks only his second high-profile franchise role. He’ll join Elba, Sofia Boutella, and returning cast members Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Karl Urban, and John Cho. Star Trek Beyond hits theaters July 8, 2016.
Angelina Jolie will direct an adaptation of Loung Ung’s First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers for Netflix. The book centers on Ung’s account of surviving the deadly Khmer Rouge regime, who assumed power over Cambodia in 1975. What followed was a four-year reign of terror and genocide that claimed the lives of two million Cambodians.
The film’s script was adapted from Ung’s 2000 book by both the author and Jolie. Jolie will serve as producer alongside Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh, best known for the Oscar-nominated foreign film The Missing Picture. The project will begin filming in late 2015, and Africa – another of Jolie’s directorial projects – was postponed as a result. First They Killed My Father will premiere on Netflix in late 2016 and be submitted to major festivals internationally.
Carter Blanchard – who’s writing next year’s Independence Day: Resurgence – is writing a film based on Steelheart, the first book in what is known as The Reckoners series by Brandon Sanderson. Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum) is reportedly in line to direct the film, which is being eyed to become a franchise.
The story centers on a group of powerful beings known as Epics, wherein one such creature named Steelheart has become emperor. A group of rebels – known as Reckoners – is devoted to defeating them, and an eager new recruit with revenge of his mind could be integral to that victory.
Roadside Attractions will release Stonewall – the new film from director Roland Emmerich – on September 25, 2015. The film chronicles the riots that took place when police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village of June 1969 and the LGBT rights movement that followed.
The project marks a dramatic change of pace from Emmerich’s usual fare, which includes big-budget blockbusters like Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. Stonewall stars Jeremy Irvine, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman, and Jonny Beauchamp.
Movie News Wrap Up: ‘Minecraft’, ‘Star Trek Beyond’ and More
by Stone Marshall | Jul 28, 2015 | Minecraft News |
If you always wanted Nintendo to make a 3D Mario game using some of the best technology in the games industry, you’re going to want to watch this video.
YouTube user aryoksini has uploaded a video of the iconic plumber running on Epic’s Unreal Engine 4.“All the environment assets were taken from the Unreal marketplace, all the character actions were scripted using blueprints only, all animations were re-created from scratch as well as the PBR ready textures,” aryoksini said in the video’s description.
It’s pretty cool to see Mario running around environments that look as sharp as the best looking PC games out there, but Mario, of course, is more than just his looks. You’d have to make those environments fun to play before you’ll get a proper game, and don’t expect anyone to take up that task anytime soon.
Recently, a Super Mario 64 fan project that made the game playable in your browser was, unsurprisingly, been shut down by Nintendo. Any projects that use Nintendo’s IP without permission will inevitably be taken down as well.
Mario Looks Very Sharp in Unreal Engine 4
