Minecraft is a gaming pnenomenon. We’ve seen countless reconstructions of various games’ and movies’ scenes and today, we bring you Minas Tirith (from The Lord Of The Rings). According to the team behind it, Minas tirith took about 6 months for the main bulk to be built, and the casual updates here and there. It looks great and shows that mappers can do – literally – anything in Minecraft. And that’s precisely why Notch’s gem is so popular. Players can go ahead and created whatever they want and the only limitation is their own imagination. Enjoy! Continue reading The Lord of the Rings’ ‘Minas Tirith’ rebuilt in Minecraft→
You’ve surely seen all those Trick Shots videos and tributes for Treyarch’s and Infinity Ward’s Call of Duty titles. But what happens when you mix those trick shots and skills with Minecraft? Well, the answer is simple as you get something like the following mashup of Modern Warfare 3 with Minecraft. Created by YouTube’s member ‘MrsBlackOps’, this video shows the potential of Minecraft and proves that you can do literally anything with it. Kudos also for using a trance track for it. Enjoy! Continue reading Minecraft meets Call of Duty in this crazy ‘Trickshotting Craft 3’ video→
YouTube’s member ‘avemagnadude’ created an interesting mashup between Minecraft and Battlefield 3, called Battlecraft 3. Battlecraft 3 shows how Battlefield 3’s trailer would look like in Minecraft and looks blocktastic. Make sure to watch it because this is something truly unique. Enjoy! Continue reading Battlefield 3 meets Minecraft in Battlecraft 3→
Mojang have officially released today the 1.2.5 version of Minecraft. This new version comes with shift clicking support in furnaces, various fixes, the Direct Connect dialog remembering the last IP for the current session and the addition of a method to easily acquire blocks you have selected in the world in Creative mode using the ‘pick block’ key. You can view its entire changelog below. Enjoy! Continue reading Minecraft version 1.2.5 Officially Released→
Fireandicemc.com is a group of people dedicated to recreating the world of Westeros, made popular by the Game of Thrones HBO show and book series, out of blocks in the game Minecraft. Their Minecraft server is up and running and they have released a new video to showcase Winterfell, Kings Landing, The Eyrie and the Wall. It looks amazing and we’d urge you to pay a visit to its official website. Enjoy the video – courtesy of Machinima – after the jump. Continue reading Game of Thrones brings Winter into Minecraft→
Now this is really interesting. Earlier this week, Markus Persson suggested Double Fine to self fund a sequel to Psychonauts by doing more crowd funding. No, that’s incorrect. Markus said that he’d do exactly that if he was in Tim Schafer’s shoes, so… well… yeah, he suggested that. Anyway, a lot of the press covered it and thought that Markus suggested Double Fine to start a Kickstarter for Psychonauts 2. I mean, that’s one way of how the crowd can fund a game, right? Which is fine by us but it seems that Cliff Bleszinski was annoyed by all this thing. Continue reading Cliff Bleszinski calls Persson crazy for his suggestions on Psychonauts 2, Persson defends himself→
This is simply amazing. YouTube’s member ‘bogenfreund0’ has uploaded a video of a 3D print from a Minecraft Village. This 3D model of minecraft-village was exported directly out of the game world using a modified command, colored using CAD software, and printed on a Zprinter 650. The end result is mind-blowing and a beauty to behold. Kudos to PCGamer for spotting it. Enjoy! Continue reading Drooling Minecraft Village 3D Print→
And it’s time for another Minecraft video, hooraaaaaaay. CraftedMovie has recreated of one of the best movie scenes ever. Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark is considered a classic movie and CraftedMovie has managed to recreate in Minecraft the scene where Jones explores a temple and retrieves a golden idol. Awesome scene, amazing recreation. Enjoy this Minecraft machinima after the jump! Continue reading Indiana Jones – Raiders of the Lost Ark recreated in Minecraft→
We’ve seen a lot of recreations in Minecraft but this one looks really lovely and ideal for all Zelda fans out there. Project Hyrulecraft is a 1:1 reconstruction of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in Minecraft. This project has been in development since May 2011, with the intent of being hosted on a custom built server. The Hyrulecraft multiplayer server will feature many RPG and MMO aspects such as quests, classes, experience and leveling, and a fan-written storyline that continues the story after the events of OOT’s child timeline. Continue reading Ocarina of Time recreated in Minecraft with Project HyruleCraft→