Minecraft

The good folks at Mattel were nice enough to send over a few of their new Minecraft Legends toys for the kids to unbox and play with, and while Minecraft might not be my thing, it is definitely theirs! The sets they sent were well loved when they arrived, and the younger two kids are still pulling them out multiple times each week to have their own Minecraft experiences. Let’s take a look!   The Devourer! – 69.99 CAD “Capture…

Minecraft Legends is an upcoming action strategy video game being developed by Mojang Studios and Blackbird Interactive, and published by Xbox Game Studios. It is officially slated to release on April 18, 2023. Now this isn’t the first spinoff from the ULTRA successful Minecraft series, you may remember Minecraft Dungeons from a few years ago, which I had a lot of fun with honestly. Can they do it again with Minecraft Legends? First off I highly encourage you to check…

Minecraft is a very popular franchise and its starting to get a few spinoffs. The latest Minecraft spinoff is called Minecraft Legends. What is this spinoff? Is it a good game? Here is our review of Minecraft Legends for the Xbox Series. Minecraft Legends takes place in a world other than the usual Minecraft world. At the beginning of the story, the first person Minecraft hero is pulled out of that world into new world that needs a hero to…

Just when you think we’ve seen all the Minecraft we could have possibly seen by now, another pretty cool announcement came out way yesterday to bring not only new experiences on the game but bring it to the real world as well! Players can recreate physical toys in the digital world of Minecraft Downloadable content map launches January 31, some toys available now   LOS ANGELES – January 31, 2023 – Mattel, Inc. (NASDAQ: MAT) and Minecraft today announced a…

Xbox has announced that they’ll have a Developer Direct on January 25th. We have the details below. An Xbox Developer_Direct will air on January 25th at 2pm central. Elder Scrolls Online, Forza Motorsport, Minecraft Legends, and Redfall will get specific showcases. Sounds like other games will be shown too, but those are the ones that will get more attention. Where’s Starfield you ask? Its not going to be in this one. And while that might be disappointed…don’t worry. Xbox says…

Last night, Nintendo announced a release date for the next Smash Bros related amiibo. They also announced a delay for two others. Check out the details below. The Min Min Smash Bros amiibo will be out on April 29th. Meanwhile, the two Minecraft Smash Bros amiibo, Steve and Alex, have been delayed till later in 2022. Are you looking forward to these amiibo? Will you get both?…

I’ve long said, along with countless others, that Xbox Game Pass is the best deal in gaming.  Microsoft and big box retailers frequently run promotions on subscriptions, and I’ve personally never paid more than $100 for a year of Game Pass Ultimate, which includes both PC and Xbox games in addition to an Xbox Live Gold subscription.  Playing through two brand new games per year is enough to make the subscription worth it.  There are hundreds of games on the…

Minecraft Dungeons was a revelation for me earlier this year. It took a style of game I love — Diablo 3 is one of my favorite games of last-gen — and combined it with a property I couldn’t care less about. Would I care about a kid-ified version of a loot-based dungeon crawler? The answer to this rhetorical question was a resounding “yes!” I couldn’t stop playing the game until I beat it, again and again, going through the core…

Mojang recently released their Jungle Awakens DLC pack for Minecraft Dungeons, the first of two planned packs offered as part of the $30 Hero Edition of the game (the packs can still be purchased individually). Even if you don’t buy the DLC, there’s a free level, Lower Temple, on the main map.  That map has also been updated to show other hidden levels you may have missed along your playthrough.  On top of that, you can join a game hosted…

irst wrapped up my playthrough of Minecraft Dungeons on the default difficulty, I thought it was a fun game, but perhaps a bit shallow.  I came away from it thinking I'd seen all that the game had to offer, and that the Adventure and Apocalypse difficulties would, for the most part, be more of the same.  After all, I'd unlocked a couple of hidden levels, and felt that I'd explored each map from head to toe.  By the time I'd completed the game on Adventure difficulty, I came away with a distinctly different feel.