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Game developer Mojang unveiled the next update for Minecraft‘s Windows 10 and Pocket Edition: the Discovery Update. The update now bumps the game to version 1.1 and focuses heavily on exploration.
In a blog post, Mojang’s Marsh Davies explained:
It’s not called The Discovery Update for no reason: there are many mysterious and wondrous things to uncover. Barter with a cartographer for a treasure map, sling your supplies into a llama’s pack (or into a shulker box) and embark on an epic quest to locate the dank and dangerous forest mansion! Does your route take you across an impassable river? The Enchantment of Frostwalking will solve that problem! Meanwhile, the Enchantment of Mending will keep your swordblade sharp no matter how many mobs you slay along the way. Defeat the sinister illagers who lurk within the mansion and make off with their precious loot – the Totem of Undying – and cheat death as you throw yourself into further peril!
The update also includes the ability to dye your bed a new color or build with new terracotta and concrete blocks. Players can also alter the movement properties of mobs. Mojang also promised to deliver more features for the Discovery Update.
Update 1.1 for Windows 10 and PE versions of Minecraft does not heavily differ from the Exploration Update that launched nearly five months ago.
The ‘game-ification’ of learning may help ensure that today’s children have a job in tomorrow’s digital world
Tech literacy is essential in the contemporary workplace. The ability to navigate basic software, operating systems, the Internet, and mobile devices is a mandatory skill in virtually any industry.
It is a workplace our grandparents would not recognise, and if you’re over 30 very little of your school career would have prepared you for it.
Not so for current school students. They have never known a world without mobile phones, even if they don’t yet have their own. We’ve all heard anecdotes about children trying to activate a TV by touching the screen, or seen toddlers trying to pinch and zoom their way through print magazines like they would on a tablet.
These children will soon enter a school environment even more geared for tech literacy, aimed at preparing them for a workplace we cannot imagine, and jobs that haven’t yet been invented.
Computer-assisted teaching is well established, and gaming-led learning is part of it. Microsoft and Minecraft are tapping into it with the recent release (and local launch) of Minecraft: Education Edition. This version of the popular game gives teachers and schools a more controlled and secure virtual environment in which to let their charges loose.
Since the global launch last year, more than 75,000 students around the world have engaged with Minecraft: Education Edition.
Inside the game, players build and create elements of their world such as buildings, farms, structures and complex systems that can — in a lesson environment — be used to represent other things, such as the excretory system for a biology class. There’s an endless supply of building materials and chances to “do over”, promoting a level of comfort around trying, failing and trying again that is not always present in classrooms with the limitations of their physical resources. This also promotes creativity and collaboration.
But do we really want even more screen time and children playing computer games in class? It’s a matter of teacher management, says Stephen Reid, a Scottish educator and founder of ImmersiveMinds, as well as an ambassador for Minecraft: Education Edition. He attended the local launch at Brescia House School in Johannesburg this month.
He lays this principle out with examples from his own experience. He recently taught a module on Egyptian history. The class read textbooks, researched an essay and mapped a pyramid on graph paper throughout the week, before getting limited class time in Minecraft at the end of the week to try their hand at virtually building these structures. Another group used the technology to recreate a historical building in a Minecraft world — learning about modelling, research, technical drawing and design, before creating their digital projects. Then they bed these lessons down in a tech environment, along with learning how to manoeuvre and manipulate in this virtual setting.
Reid believes this is how students learn from observation and trial-and-error.
This is how to ensure that children have a job in the future, in the face of increasing automation, Reid argues in an opinion piece: “It is our duty as educators to rise to these demands and assist our learners in developing the kinds of skills needed to play their own part in this digital evolution. Today’s learners have to master the use of technology and acquire 21st-century learning skillsets such as critical thinking, creative problem solving, collaboration and communication within groups of people from diverse countries and cultures.”
Several primary school students from Brescia House School were present at the launch, and keen to show off their newfound skills. The littlest girls played on tablets throughout the session, then showed the collection of teachers and journalists the projects they had created, including planning and building little homes for their online avatars. The older children then led the group through an exercise in a Minecraft world – their fingers flying over the keyboards (making this particular journalist feel very slow).
Brescia House’s endeavours in Minecraft began after a teacher saw a presentation by Reid at an education conference and petitioned to include this in her classes. But this is – for now – certainly not within reach for all SA schools, as licensing fees and hardware requirements apply.
One of the classic superhero groups loved by most ’90s kids, the Power Rangers, found their way to “Minecraft” recently. MojangThe Power Rangers skin pack arrive in “Minecraft”
Mojang, the developer of the game “Minecraft,” has recently put up an all-new Power Rangers skin pack that will let players dress characters on their “Minecraft” games as Blue, Pink, Red, Black, and Yellow Power Rangers.
To complete the experience, the Power Rangers downloadable content also comes with skins for some of the most famous villains of the franchise including Rita Repulsa, Bulk and Skull.
The Power Rangers skin pack is available on “Minecraft” Pocket, Console, and Windows 10 platforms for $2.99 and will take up a bit over 10 MB memory space.
One of the people who designed the skin pack, Mike Fielder, recalled how as a child he would go home from school and just be excited about watching “Power Rangers.”
“When I found out we would be working on a Minecraft version of some of the character line-up I was pretty excited and even more so when I found out Bulk and Skull would be included since they were my favourite characters. I had a blast creating Minecraft versions of these characters. I hope everyone who uses these skins has as much fun playing them as I did creating them,” Fielder shared through the official announcement of the DLC.
Though the developers did not mention it on their official blog post, the release of the Power Rangers skin pack on “Minecraft” is obviously not far from the recent premiere of the franchise reboot on the big screen.
The “Power Rangers” 2017 reboot opened in movie theaters across the United States last week. About a week since its release, the movie has reportedly racked up more than $73 million in box office worldwide. The movie’s plot features high schoolers coming to terms with their newly-found superpowers and stars actors Dacre Montgomery as Red Ranger, Naomi Scott as Pink Ranger, RJ Cyler as Blue Ranger, Becky G as Yellow Ranger and Ludi Lin as Black Ranger teaming up to defeat Rita Repulsa (Elizabeth Banks).
When Avengers: Age of Ultron hit theaters this past May, it marked the release of Marvel’s biggest film yet—in more ways than one. Not only was the scale of Age of Ultron massive, but the ensemble itself was stacked with brief appearances by fan favorite MCU characters, ranging from Idris Elba to Hayley Atwell. The ability to include so many different characters—from various worlds and time periods—was made possible by a series of dream sequences thanks to one Scarlet Witch. It added a wonderfully strange flavor to the Age of Ultron proceedings, and gave Joss Whedon the opportunity to have some fun with the headspace of his various Avengers.
But quite possibly the most popular MCU character of all was also supposed to be included, only to have his cameo nixed in post-production. We learned earlier this year that the Thor dream sequence initially had Tom Hiddleston’s Loki in the mix, but his character doesn’t appear in the final film. Speaking with Digital Spy recently, Hiddleston explains why:
“I was part of the dream sequence for the character of Thor. I shot for a day and enjoyed it very much, and then I received a phone call from Kevin Feige [who] said that in test screenings, audiences had overemphasized Loki’s role. They thought that because I was in it, I was controlling Ultron, and it was actually imbalancing people’s expectations so Joss and Kevin were like, ‘Let’s cut it because it’s confusing people.’… It made sense to me when I saw that film.”
Indeed it does make sense. Loki is really the only genuinely good villain in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and is quite possibly the most popular character aside from Iron Man. So it makes sense that the arrival of such a beloved character would elicit expectations that he was somehow involved in the film’s overarching proceedings. But we’ll get to see Hiddleston’s Loki in all his glory return for Thor: Ragnarok, which recently landed a director in Taika Waititi. The Dark World sequel opens in theaters November 2017.
Steven Spielberg changed the game 22 years ago when he released the dinosaur epic Jurassic Park, which remains one of the most successful and popular movies Hollywood has ever seen. Among those featured in the movie were kid actors Joseph Mazzello and Ariana Richards, who played the forever-traumatized grandchildren of Richard Attenborough. In the two decades since becoming famous for running from velociraptors, where are they now? We dug up some pretty interesting facts to catch you up to (carbon) date.
Now, here’s something that’ll make you feel super-old: Richards, now 36 (!) tied the knot with her hubby, Mark Bolton, in 2013, and is currently expecting her first child, due in November 2015. “My husband and I are thrilled,” Richards told PEOPLE in June. “This is really a wonderful moment for us. It’s super exciting.”
According to PEOPLE, over the years Richards shifted from acting to painting, which is now her main professional focus. “I love to work with people in the art and express their story on canvas and my impression of them and what they want to express and use oils, brushes, canvas to create something that will last the generation,” she revealed. Now reportedly in South America for her art tour, Richards says she’s living a “much quieter” but “still very rich” life compared to her days in the glitz and glamor of Hollywood. “My life story these days, I still experience the red carpet as an artist,” she said. “But on a day-to-day basis I live kind of a country life.”
According to a 2011 interview with The Wall Street Journal, Richards sent Spielberg a watercolor self portrait of herself that was inspired by one of the scenes in Jurassic Park, which now hangs in Spielberg’s office. For his part, Spielberg is a pretty good gift-giver, too. “He never fails to send me something around Christmas,” Richards said. “When he finds people he likes, he’s really good at keeping in touch.” And here we thought we couldn’t love Spielberg more than we do already.
Richards’ movie career pretty much began and ended with the Jurassic Park franchise. She last appeared in a movie in the 1997 sequel, The Lost World. Subsequent acting gigs were on an incredibly smaller scale; TV movies like Broken Silence: A Moment of Truth Movie (1998) and Tremors 3: Back to Perfection (2001) are among the titles. No, we’ve never heard of them either.
Also in her interview with The Wall Street Journal, Richards—who graduated from Skidmore college in 2011—admitted she hasn’t altogether ruled out a return to acting. “Sometimes I’m on the the pulse of what’s happening in Hollywood,” she said, “but other times, I’m just totally absorbed by what I’m creating on the easel.” Adding to PEOPLE, she said: “If some great role or project finds me, absolutely that could be a nice thing to do, for sure.” Here’s hoping she paid attention to Jurassic World’s record-breaking box office returns…
Mojang has announced the next update for Minecraft‘s Windows 10 and mobile versions. Update 1.1, which is also known as The Discovery Update, is focused around things to uncover.
“There are many mysterious and wondrous things to uncover,” Mojang said in a blog post. “Barter with a cartographer for a treasure map, sling your supplies into a llama’s pack (or into a shulker box) and embark on an epic quest to locate the dank and dangerous forest mansion.”
The Discovery Update also introduces new Enchantments, including Frostwalking (lets you walk on water) and Mending (keeps your sword sharp). Mojang also confirmed that if you defeat the monsters within the mansion mentioned above, you’ll receive the “Totem of Undying” that keeps you alive when you should otherwise have perished.
Additionally, the update adds new features such as the ability to dye your bed a new color or build with new glazed terracotta and concrete blocks. The update also lets you change the movement properties of mobs, if that’s what you want to do.
Finally, Mojang teased that this is “just the start” for new features in The Discovery Update. More details will be announced in the coming weeks.
The Discovery Update will be available on Android for testers “in the near future.” It’s also coming to iOS and Windows 10, though there is no word yet on consoles.
