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A Minecraft map has been featured in the 2025 edition of a Japanese mathematics textbook. The map in question is called Traditional Japanese House (or Machiya Kunpudo in Japanese). It was created by Team-KYO and is available in the Minecraft Marketplace. As such, it can be found in practically every version of the game for players to explore.

As the name indicates, the map is a reproduction of a Japanese-style machiya wooden townhouse like the ones found in Kyoto, Japan. The map has been praised for its capacity to clearly depict lines and planes in space through its use of tatami mats, pillars, and paper sliding doors within the Japanese-style rooms that appear in it.

The Minecraft map was used in the opening page for Chapter 6 Spacial Figures of the Japanese junior high school textbook “Mirai e Hirogaru Math 1,” published by Keirinkan. The publishing house believes that incorporating Minecraft into the educational setting of a classroom textbook will help students become more familiar with the material they are studying. Even more so when considering how popular the video game is amongst elementary and junior high school students.

The popular sandbox video game has been used in Japan to engage with a younger audience in the past, with a Minecraft book teaching children how to clean up being released by Kadokawa back in March 12, 2025.

Minecraft is readily available for Windows PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, and mobile devices.

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The Minecraft adaptation and Mortal Kombat 2 movies will reportedly resume filming in 2024. This is thanks to studios and the SAG-AFTRA union reaching a tentative agreement, ending the strikes that halted production for the past three months. [Thanks, Deadline!]

Minecraft and Mortal Kombat 2 are part of a range of movies that are set to resume filming in 2024. Minecraft is an adaptation of Mojang’s beloved crafting game. While plot details are unknown, it will be directed by Jared Hess and star Jason Momoa (Aquaman) and Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows).

Mortal Kombat 2 is the sequel to 2021’s Mortal Kombat reboot of the movie timeline. It will be directed by Simon McQuoid, just like the first movie. While initial reports suggesting filming will resume in 2024, producer Todd Garner confirmed that filming is set to resume before the end of 2023.

The news of these movies resuming production isn’t the only recent adaptation news. Nintendo announced that an adaptation of The Legend of Zelda is the works, with producer Avi Arad working alongside Shigeru Miyamoto.

No release date has been confirmed for either Minecraft or Mortal Kombat 2. Minecraft is on the PS3, PS4, Vita, Switch, 3DS, Xbox 360, Xbox One, PC, and mobile devices. Mortal Kombat 1 is on the PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X, and PC.

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With a newly released DLC pack, Minecraft: Bedrock Edition players can take on the role of Mega Man. The comes with levels, skins, and music from the classic Capcom game. The DLC pack is available now for 1,340 Minecraft coins, which costs around $8.

Check out the announcement tweet, which includes a trailer, below:

https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1628098051482202112

The Mega Man X DLC pack recreates several levels from the original game series, complete with boss fights. Vile (in his Ride Armor), Chill Penguin, Storm Eagle, Armored Armadillo, and Sting Chameleon are available to fight. After defeating all of them, Sigma will be waiting for a showdown in his four-stage fortress. Nine of Mega Man's weapons are available to use, and gear can also be unlocked and upgraded as players progress through the DLC.

On top of the levels, the Mega Man X DLC for Minecraft also adds 14 new skins to the game. Players can dress themselves up as characters such as Mega Man, Zero, and Dr. Wily. The Mega Man X soundtrack is also available to listen to as part of the pack.

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is available for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, and PC. The Mega Man X DLC pack is available to now at a price of 1,340 Minecraft coins. A spin-off game, Minecraft Legends, releases on April 18, 2023, for the same systems.

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The first game to come up during the January 2023 Xbox and Bethesda Developer_Direct was Minecraft Legends. This is the action-strategy game for groups of players to play together to face off against other players’ team in a changing world. Your goal is to strategically build up a base and strengthen your team, while also going up against the other players with mobs you recruited. This portion of the presentation ended by revealing Minecraft Legends release date is April 18, 2023.

You can watch the new Minecraft Legends footage at the very beginning of the showcase below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-Et8r1413Y&ab_channel=Xbox

There's also a new gameplay trailer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaL6XQZISq0&ab_channel=Xbox

Back in June 2022, Microsoft offered another look at this Minecraft spin-off. That offered a better idea of what went into creating this new game.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eo-hfihoaRw&ab_channel=Minecraft

Minecraft Legends offers PVP for up to four people and cross-platform play in a procedurally generated world. You share an army and resources with other players. This means people can be building or gathering, as well as fighting. Also, throughout the game someone will be facing both the other players’ team and the Piglins.

The Minecraft Legends release date is April 18, 2023. It will come to the PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC. It will also be a part of Xbox Game at launch.

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Minecraft-themed pillows and blankets will appear in Japan. Fashion Center Shimamura has announced that it will sell the aforementioned items, which also include hugging pillows of Alex, Steve, and the Zombie from Minecraft. The shop will start selling the items exclusively on its web store on October 22, 2022.

The Minecraft hugging pillows will replicate the characters' appearances in the original game. The pillows will be around 60 cm (~23.6 inches) tall with 22 cm (~8.66 inches) in the other two dimensions. Each item will be available at 2,970 yen (~$20).

Other than hugging pillows, the store will also sell bolsters sized 20 x 90 cm (~7.9 x 35 in) decorated with Minecraft items and creatures for 1,969 yen each. Shimamura will also sell half-sized blankets at 100 x 140 cm (~39 x 55 in) with designs of Polar Bears, Axolotls, the Creeper, and the Ender Dragon for 1,419 yen each.

The globally popular game Minecraft is also well-known in Japan. Children readers of the Japanese manga magazine CoroCoro voted for Minecraft among their top ten liked game series in 2020. Characters from the game also made their way into the DLC lineup of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.

The latest version of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is available on PC, Xbox Series X, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and PlayStation 4 with cross-play . The PlayStation versions also the original PlayStation VR device.

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It’s time to say goodbye to a Minecraft game. Mojang announced that Minecraft Earth will be shut down on June 30, 2021. In the official announcement, the COVID-19 pandemic was cited as the reason for the closure, as it is an AR mobile game along the lines of Pokemon GO and relied on people being able to leave their houses and be in public.

Mojang also explained how it will make things up to people who might have been active players. First, anyone who ever bought anything in Minecraft Earth will get a digital copy of Minecraft’s Bedrock version and, if they still have Rubies, will get an equivalent amount of Minecoins to make up for it. Everyone will get Character Creator items until the game shuts down. You can’t buy in-game cash anymore. Everything it was working on will be in-game. Radius boosts are being doled out. Also, apparently anything that does still cost Rubies will cost a lot less.

Minecraft Earth was also notable for having amiibo-like figures. These Minis, which were available in boost and standard varieties, would do things like reduce the amount of time items would take to craft in-game. Like the game, the Minis are available worldwide.

Minecraft Earth is available on Android and Apple iOS devices worldwide. Service will end on June 30, 2021, with player data being deleted on July 1, 2021.

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A feature Mojang teased a month ago is finally heading to Minecraft Dungeons. In October 2020, the developer revealed that a free update would let people play together, regardless of which console they were using. (Just like the regular versions of Minecraft.) Now the official Twitter for the game revealed Minecraft Dungeons cross-play will appear on November 17, 2020.

The feature will be ed on all platforms and the update will be distributed on the four fronts that same day. The tweet also offered a pleasant teaser image showing a full party of four heading off to fight a foe in the action-RPG.

Heroes, are you listening?!

Cross-platform play arrives on November 17 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows and Xbox One! It’s almost time to forces – whatever platform you play on! pic.twitter.com/wDusUWYYOY

— Minecraft Dungeons (@dungeonsgame) November 11, 2020

If this is the update someone was waiting for before buying a copy of the game, it might be wise now to wait for the Black Friday 2020 sales to kick in. As Nintendo announced, physical copies of the normally $29.99 Hero Edition that includes add-ons like the Jungle Awakens and Creeping Winter DLC will be $19.99. As Best Buy and GameStop pointed out, this deal isn’t limited to the Nintendo Switch version and applies to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One ones as well.

Minecraft Dungeons is available for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. The Minecraft Dungeons cross-play update will appear on November 17, 2020.

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Big things are coming to Minecraft Dungeons. During the Minecraft Live 2020 show, Mojang offered multiple updates on all things related to the series, and this spin-off was among the titles getting major announcements. The biggest being that the free Minecraft Dungeons cross-play update will launch in November 2020. Then, a month later, there will be another free update with more difficulties and paid DLC.

With cross-play, all versions of the game will be able to play together. The Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC releases will all be ed. An exact launch date beyond November 2020 wasn’t announced, though.

Though, that’s a trend for these new reveals. None of them came with exact dates, even if they were only a month away. The Apocalypse Plus update, for example, will just be around in December 2020. This general update will add new equipment, raise your level cap, and add even more difficulties.

The new Howling Peaks DLC will launch in December 2020 too. It seems to follow the pattern set by Creeping Winter and Jungle Awakens, which means a new boss (Tempest Golem), new equipments and missions, and new enemies. It will be available alone, likely at $5.99 if it follows the current DLC pattern, or in a new season . (The current one, Hero , is $9.99 and gives people the previous two DLC packs, a chicken pet, skins, and a hero cape.)

Minecraft Dungeons is available for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. The Minecraft Dungeons cross-play update will arrive in November 2020, followed by Howling Peaks and Apocalypse Plus in December 2020.

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Minecraft virtual reality has been a thing for a while now. Mojang has ed headsets on different platforms, like the Oculus Rift. The Windows 10 version of the game even had Windows Mixed Reality . But, there wasn’t any PlayStation VR . That is, until this month. Mojang announced on the PlayStation Blog that a Minecraft PSVR update is on the way in September 2020.

Like the Windows Mixed Reality VR experience, the Minecraft PSVR experience will be free feature. If you have the PlayStation 4, it will get the patch that will let anyone with the PSVR headset play the game in the first-person with it. It won’t be any separate version of the game. You can immediately play what you already have, just with the headset.

The announcement also went over a few details about how this will all work. This VR experience is based on all the other Minecraft VR experiences. Both Sony and SkyBox Labs were involved with making it happen. Folks can use their DualShock 4s to play, as usual. There will also be Immersive and Living Room modes to help people find the experience and option that best suits their playstyle.

Minecraft is available on Sony platforms like the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita. Minecraft PSVR will arrive in September 2020. The game also s cross-play on all platforms and has its own CoroCoro manga in Japan.

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A Minecraft game that attempts to change up the classic formula is on the way. The Minecraft Dungeons release date is May 26, 2020. That’s when the Diablo-like single-player and multiplayer action-RPG will make its debut.

In Minecraft Dungeons, players are attempting to delve into different dungeon levels to fight the Arch-Illiger and rescue the villagers the villain captured along the way. You’ll be fully equipped with an array of weapons (and be able to find more) as you head further down into the depths and attempt to defeat the menace’s minions.

Someone could theoretically go through the entirety of the game alone. However, it has been specifically designed with multiplayer in mind. Up to four people can work together to fight against the monsters and attempt to get as much loot as possible. While cross-play won't be available at launch, it will be a free update.

Here’s a trailer to act as a refresher for how the action-RPG will play. It begins by focusing on the single-player element, before showing what it will be like in a group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz3K8XVQq74

Minecraft Dungeons will come to the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC on May 26, 2020. This means it will meet its promised Spring 2020 release window. Also, if someone is an Xbox Game subscriber, they will find it available in the lineup immediately after it launches.

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Mojang, the developer of Minecract, has officially ed Microsoft, following a report last week that the two were g an acquisition deal worth $2.5 billion.

Xbox head Phil Spencer announced the news this morning, and  added that Microsoft intend to continue growing the Minecraft franchise. As a result, they will continue to make Minecraft available across PC, Xbox, PlayStation, iOS and Android. The MINECON event will continue next year as well, Spencer said.

“Our investments in cloud, Xbox Live and mobile technology will enable players to benefit from richer and faster worlds, more powerful development tools, and more opportunities to connect with the Minecraft community,” he promised in a blog post.

Meanwhile, in a post on the Mojang website, Mojang’s Owen Hill confirms the acquisition and explains why the developer has allowed Microsoft to purchase it and the Minecraft franchise.

“As you might already know, Notch is the creator of Minecraft and the majority shareholder at Mojang,” Hill writes. “He’s decided that he doesn’t want the responsibility of owning a company of such global significance. Over the past few years he’s made attempts to work on smaller projects, but the pressure of owning Minecraft became too much for him to handle. The only option was to sell Mojang. He’ll continue to do cool stuff though. Don’t worry about that.”

Additionally, Hill confirms that, while the majority of Mojang staff will remain at the company, founders Notch, Carl and Jakob are leaving.

Meanwhile, in a post on his own blog, founder Markus "Notch" Persson explains why he is leaving the company, stating that he never intended to become a symbol connected to a game that has gone on to become more successful than he could have predicted.

"I don’t want to be a symbol, responsible for something huge that I don’t understand, that I don’t want to work on, that keeps coming back to me," he writes. "I’m not an entrepreneur. I’m not a CEO. I’m a nerdy computer programmer who likes to have opinions on Twitter."

"As soon as this deal is finalized, I will leave Mojang and go back to doing Ludum Dares and small web experiments. If I ever accidentally make something that seems to gain traction, I’ll probably abandon it immediately."

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Microsoft are in “serious discussions” to acquire Mojang, the developer of Minecraft, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The publication cites an anonymous source with “knowledge of the matter”.

The deal is reportedly worth $2 billion, and could be signed as early as this week.

Should a deal between the two companies come through, it should be interesting to see what happens to the Minecraft franchise, which, so far, has remained multiplatform, and is available on numerous devices.

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