by Stone Marshall | Jan 4, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Netflix’s Minecraft: Story mode, an interactive TV reworking of Telltale Games’ episodic Minecraft adventure, is now available to stream in full. It marks the last Telltale project to be completed in-house, prior to the studio’s closure.
When Telltale announced that it had laid off the vast majority of staff earlier this year, it noted that “a small group of 25 employees [would be] staying on to fulfil the company’s obligations to its board and partners.” Netflix later confirmed that, while its Stranger Things project with Telltale was dead, Minecraft: Story Mode was “still moving forward as planned” at the studio.
That work is evidently complete, and, following the release of an initial batch of episodes last week, the full five-episode run of Minecraft: Story Mode is now available to Netflix subscribers. Netflix’s version of Story Mode pares the game’s first season back somewhat, focussing on key cinematic sequences and more binary choices compared to the originals.
If you’ve not yet experienced Story Mode, it’s worth a look, even if you’ve only a passing interest in Minecraft. It’s a warm, witty (and obviously family friendly) tale of everyday heroes battling against an ancient evil, full of likeable characters and rollicking adventure – not bad at all considering its almost story-free source material.
With Minecraft: Story Mode now complete, that just leaves Telltale’s final season of The Walking Dead to go – although remaining work on this project is now being handled by an external developer. Massive redundancies at Telltale left the season’s future uncertain, despite several episodes already having been released at the time.
Since then, however, Skybound – founded by Robert Kirkman, creator of The Walking Dead comic series – has stepped in to complete the game. Release dates for the two remaining episodes, which are being developed by at least some of the original team, are due soon.
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by Stone Marshall | Jan 4, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Minecraft port developer 4J Studios has announced they’re no longer updating the legacy console versions of the sandbox game.
The game will no longer get updates on the PlayStation 3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, and Wii U. The long-running sandbox game will continue to get updates on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android, and Nintendo Switch.
The last update for the game on those platforms, The Nightmare Before Christmas Mash-up Pack, just dropped this week. It remains unclear if further updates are coming to the game’s Nintendo 3DS port, which Other Ocean Interactive ported.
by Stone Marshall | Jan 3, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Watch new footage of YouTuber Stampy Cat making 10 cakes in Minecraft in under four minutes.
Stampy was taking on Fastest time to make and display 10 cakes in Minecraft survival mode (PC Edition) at our London HQ ahead of his appearance in Guinness World Records: Gamer’s Edition 2019.
Stampy, a.k.a Joseph Garrett, is a YouTube star who has made a name for himself in the Minecraft world with series such as Stampy’s Funland and My Lovely World.
Boasting over 9 million subscribers and almost 7 billion views on his channel, Stampy wanted to add something new to his list of accolades.
Already a record-holder with Most viewed Terraria video (9,736,410 views) on his video entitled Terraria Xbox – My First Night [1], Stampy decided to set a brand new record, combining his love of Minecraft and cake.
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The successful attempt took just 3 minutes 51 seconds, but contrary to what the title would suggest, it was no piece of cake!
Lots of forethought went into the attempt to ensure it went efficiently, resulting in a quick time. Stampy placed all the elements out methodically and used pits to spawn his skeletons and cow into to stop them moving during the attempt.
“Spawning them in so they’re just roaming around the land would not be a very fast idea… because then I’ll be trying to make 10 cakes while a skeleton is running around and shooting me!” he explained.
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The two-time record breaker also wrote the introduction to Gamer’s Edition 2019, in which he discusses his records and what you can find in the fact-filled book.
“As I am literally obsessed with videogames, I was so excited when I heard that they [Guinness World Records] wanted to me be involved with this book!”
by Stone Marshall | Jan 3, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
We’ve written this article to announce to the world that Minecraft has come with a last-minute fix update for PS4. We found out what’s new with this update and we thought you’d like to hear about it, too.
The holiday update for PS4
The 4J Studios have released a new update for Minecraft PlayStation 4 edition. Just last week they have released the holiday update for PS4 and on some other platforms, too. Then they have come with a follow-up update that’s available now to download on PS4. Also, 4J Studios announced that they’d support the game into the new year on numerous platforms.
What are the patch notes that come with the update for PS4?
Patch 1.84 – change log, from the date of the 21st of December of 2018. They came with a fix for a crash that takes place when loading a world or simply exploring an existing world. They also came with a fix for Salmon, Tropical Fish and Pufferfish dropping Cod when they get killed.
These are all the patch notes for this update. 4J Studios will continue to support Minecraft PlayStation 4 Edition, Nintendo Switch and Xbox One into the new year. Other systems, such as PS3, PS Vita, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U will not receive any future updates – or at least, not that we know of so far.
On what devices is the game available?
The game is now available on many devices, like PS3, PS Vita, PS 4, PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and smartphones around the world. And it’s understandable, since it’s the most popular game from the entire world, that has sold millions of copies around the world.
by Stone Marshall | Jan 2, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Minecraft Dungeons will take players to various locations that, of course, sport that signature Minecraft block art style from canyons to swamps and the expected mines. In these various places, players will hunt down new loot like weapons and items to take down hordes of enemy mobs, including some new creatures never seen before.
You will have the option of playing Minecraft Dungeons by yourself and taking on the countless enemies alone or teaming up with up to three other friends for a full team of four players. According to the official announcement, the levels that you will explore with your team will be widely varied as you journey to save all of the villagers and take down the poorly named Arch-Illager.
Minecraft Dungeons will take players to various locations that, of course, sport that signature Minecraft block art style from canyons to swamps and the expected mines. In these various places, players will hunt down new loot like weapons and items to take down hordes of enemy mobs, including some new creatures never seen before.
You will have the option of playing Minecraft Dungeons by yourself and taking on the countless enemies alone or teaming up with up to three other friends for a full team of four players. According to the official announcement, the levels that you will explore with your team will be widely varied as you journey to save all of the villagers and take down the poorly named Arch-Illager.
Minecraft Dungeons is being developed by Mojang itself, though, the team behind it is a smaller dedicated team based in Stockholm, Sweden. The official announcement came with a reveal trailer, which you can view above. Unfortunately, the announcement trailer doesn’t seem to show any actual gameplay so it remains to be seen if the title will play from the traditional third-person/first-person viewpoint or go for the traditional isometric perspective.
However, it does seem from the initial trailer that there will be some sort of class system that players will choose from. We see the traditional sword-wielding fighter as well as a heavy duty hammer-wielding character and some sort of wizard. Minecraft Dungeons is the latest spin-off game in the series, joining Story Mode from the now-closed developer Telltale Games.
by Stone Marshall | Jan 2, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
The final Minecraft update for Wii U, Xbox 360, PS3, and PlayStation Vita will release this week. It is a bittersweet moment for all players as 4J Studios is ending all support for those last-generation platforms. The update will arrive today, December 18, for some platforms and tomorrow, December 19, for other platforms. All of the other platforms are also receiving the update, too.
The final Minecraft update for those systems is The Nightmare Before Christmas update. The update brings spooky goodies like a Nightmare Before Christmas mash-up pack, fixes for various crashes as you would expect, and more. In addition, it also brings the end of support for those platforms. However, 4J Studios gave no word on online support so we expect the servers to remain online for the time being.
If you haven’t upgraded your Minecraft game from those older platforms to their newer counterparts, now is a great time. This is especially true given that the same update will be also released on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch this week. If you’re wondering what the exact update versions are for those older platforms, we’ve got those as well.
For Xbox 360 players, it is known as Title Update 73. On Wii U, it is known as Title Update 42. Finally, on PS3 and PlayStation Vita, it is known as version 1.82. Interestingly enough, there was no information given on future support for the Nintendo 3DS version of Minecraft. That version was released after all four of the ill-fated versions so it remains to be seen what will happen to it.
On a more bittersweet note, 4J Studios also tweeted out a photo of the studio packing up all of their PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and PlayStation Vita development kits. Now that support for those versions is done, it seems there is no need for the kits anymore.
