Minecraft's “19w04a” Java snapshot update, which rolled out on Thursday, enabled wall running… but not intentionally.
While the Java snapshot update added a handful of things like stone cutting and fixing unlit campfires so they no longer burn you, nowhere does it mention wallrunning, leaving players to surmise that it must have been an unintended side effect of the recent changes. Click here to take a look yourself (thanks, Kotaku).
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“Just for context, this isn't a trick or a prank or anything,” reported Minecrafter NatalieZem, who shared a brief video of wallrunning on Reddit. “In the recent snapshot, you can't jump while pressing against a block. And apparently not being able to raise your elevation also means you can't lower it either. Try it for yourself: All you need to do is stay sprinting into the wall and you can move along it. Here's another video showing how easy this is to replicate.”
The bug's seemingly been resolved now thanks to the arrival of snapshot 19w04b, much to many players' disappointment. “This would be a cool feature though,” Redditer JamesBeYeezy opined, while owlindenial had hoped “it's not reported. Ever.” “Would be pretty cool if implemented properly,” daydreamed Everscream.
A keen gamer has revealed how he dedicated 100 hours towards painstakingly recreating Pimlico Tube station in the popular video game Minecraft.
Video footage shows how staggeringly lifelike the station looks without the gamer ever having visited Pimlico station.
The man, named only as David and who goes by the screen name Creator Labs, recreated the station by using reference images on the internet.
The project was started in Minecraft in December last year and was finished earlier this month. The game lets players build entire worlds out of nothing but blocks.
The man, from Germany, said he visited London in the holidays and was inspired to recreate some famous tourist spots.
He told the Standard: “I am actually from Germany and visited London in the holidays.
“The whole city fascinated me, so that I wanted to re-create some of the places that I saw in London.
“For example I also created the Tower Bridge in Minecraft, but in a more simple way than my newest project.”
The idea for the project came after David visited London (CreatorLabs)
He added: “I was looking for a small station with a ceiling, which would challenge Minecraft as a game.
“Because normally it is not possible to create round objects in the game. But if you know a few tricks you can also do something like this.
“So the Victoria Line was chosen, since the stations are fairly small and allow Minecraft to still run properly as with this kind of realism, the game goes to its limits and may also stop working.”
David began to play Minecraft in 2012 and says he “gathered a lot of knowledge in these past six years”.
Video footage shows how lifelike the station looks (CreatorLabs)
He said overall he was “happy with the result” as many people said that “they could not figure out how it was made with Minecraft”.
He said he decided he wanted a “new challenge” and came up with the idea of recreating a London Underground station.
“I started with the creation of Pimlico station, which is as realistic as it can get in Minecraft,” he added.
“To sum it up, Pimlico station is actually the first scene that I created that is realistic.”
Now that the project is finished, David says he is thinking “of creating scenes from museums or other popular tourist attractions from London” when he has more time.
“The only problem is, that the scene cannot be too big, since Minecraft must still handle it,” he said.
When Cory Burdette awoke recently to learn that Winter Storm Gia had caused a two-hour school delay in Reston, Va., he seized the chance to do a little family bonding.
Plopping down in front of the TV, Burdette and his 5-year-old daughter spent the morning together playing “Minecraft,” the Lego-like adventure game in which players construct buildings out of virtual blocks.
“We play all our games together on the Xbox,” he said. “In ‘Minecraft,’ we both get to build a house together, find monsters and explore.”
The first time he fired up the game, Burdette had to wait for “Minecraft” to download and install on his Xbox before launching it. But by the time his daughter is old enough to play more adult games, that wait could be a thing of the past.
Major companies such as Microsoft and Verizon are exploring how to replace game downloads with Internet-based game services, hoping to do for video gaming what Netflix and Spotify have done with TV and music. Instead of being run directly from a device, high-quality games of the future could be streamed from a data center, with most of the computations and image rendering being performed by powerful servers many miles away before being piped online to players' phones, PCs and consoles.
Unlike passive forms of media such as movies and music, playing games over the Internet calls for highly responsive technology that can interpret a player's actions from afar, process them within milliseconds and relay the results back to players and their opponents instantaneously.
The challenge has stymied gamers and game companies for years. But with advances in computing power, the adoption of high-speed broadband and fresh investments by tech behemoths, what was once a lofty technological and cultural goal for the game industry now seems closer at hand than at any point in the past decade.
“Game streaming services will be the ultimate driver of a rapid transition from the sale of games in boxes to digital consumption,” Yosuke Matsuda, president of the game company Square Enix, declared in a New Year's letter to the public. “Streaming also lends itself to new subscription-based business models, so we believe deciding how to engage with these forthcoming trends will be key to future growth.”
As more Americans turn to mobile and online entertainment, executives across the media landscape have recognized that they are competing for the same, quickly diminishing resource: consumer attention. Even Netflix last month acknowledged that it views the hit game “Fortnite” as an even bigger competitor in some respects than HBO.
In the war for consumer attention, cloud-based gaming represents tens of billions of dollars in additional profit for game publishers alone, analysts say. Beyond the simple convenience of playing games off a central server, what makes the idea so attractive is the capability to turn even the weakest laptop into a fully functional gaming rig.
That could make it far easier for people to play video games on whatever device they have, wherever they may be, according to Brian Nowak, an industry analyst at Morgan Stanley. “As a base case, this new technology has the opportunity to expand the addressable player base by lowering barriers to entry around AAA games,” Nowak wrote in a research note last month.
Recent high-profile experiments with cloud-based gaming include Google's Project Stream, which wrapped up a beta trial last month that allowed testers to play “Assassin's Creed: Odyssey” online for free; Microsoft's Project xCloud, which promises to enable game streaming over mobile data connections; and Verizon Gaming, leaks of which emerged earlier last month.
Recent reports suggested that Apple may be planning a cloud-based games service, and e-commerce giant Amazon is also said to be doing the same. (Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post.)
The jolt of interest in cloud-based gaming reflects how quickly the landscape for video games has shifted in recent years. The popularity of mobile gaming has some publishers such as Epic Games, the maker of “Fortnite,” moving to build its own app marketplace for games, circumventing the traditional app store middlemen such as Google. But in Project Stream, Google may be hinting at one possible strategy for outmaneuvering Epic in return: by eliminating app downloads altogether.
The last major attempt to build a cloud-based games service was known as OnLive, which launched in 2010 with five data centers scattered across the country. The service showed promise, but many gamers discovered that their own experiences differed drastically from those of professional reviewers. In particular, players said, OnLive was marred by input lag, or a significant delay between user actions and results on the screen.
“The latency between you controlling the game and it reacting was really bad on OnLive,” said Ethan Hawkes, a lifelong gamer who lives in Irvine, Calif. But times are different now, said Hawkes, who tested Google's Project Stream. “The tech has finally caught up.”
Other gamers say that although the technology has come a long way, it still isn't seamless.
Another Project Stream tester, Chris Cantrell, said Google did a good job showcasing how its servers could faithfully reproduce the high-fidelity graphics of a single-player game like “Assassin’s Creed.” But that game notably does not come with fast-twitch, competitive multiplayer, a staple of modern gaming culture and a data-intensive hurdle that tech companies must still address as many households are already streaming multiple services at once.
“Assassin's Creed” is “a slower game, and so you don’t have to be as precise. But you can’t play ‘Call of Duty’ on this connection,” Cantrell said.
Could Microsoft be teasing an appearance by Steve from Minecraft on Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate? Some fans think this could be the case after an intriguing tweet on Xbox Game Pass.
A recent post on the Xbox Game Pass verified Twitter account has some fans of the Minecraft and Super Smash Bros. series very excited, as it could suggest that a character from Microsoft's popular sandbox game could be joining the roster of Nintendo's crossover fighting game.
The speculation began on the 24th of January, during national compliment day, when the Xbox Game Pass Twitter account complimented Nintendo's Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, the latest entry in the acclaimed long-running crossover fighting series.
While the tweet itself isn't very telling, it's the choice of words that has Minecraft and Super Smash Bros. fans believing this is a tease that would point to either Steve or Alex from the Minecraft series; all of this because they used the word “dig” in the tweet.
Fans of the Super Smash Bros. series know that every time a new character is introduced, it's followed by a play on words that fits the character like “Bayonetta Gets Wicked”, “Cloud Storms Into Battle”, or “Ken Turns Up the Heat” — to name but a few. So Xbox Game Pass using the word “dig” could well be Microsoft actually teasing Minecraft characters joining Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
This is only but a rumour, but one that could well end up becoming a reality. All fans of Minecraft and Super Smash Bros. have to do now is keep their fingers crossed and hope for this to be more than just a tease
Legendary game worlds and fighters collide in the ultimate showdown—a new entry in the Super Smash Bros. series for the Nintendo Switch system! New fighters, like Inkling from the Splatoon series and Ridley from the Metroid series, make their Super Smash Bros. series debut alongside every Super Smash Bros. fighter in the series…EVER! Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is currently available exclusively for the Nintendo Switch.
While parents enjoyed watching Tom Cruise kick butt in his latest action extravaganza, children enjoyed reading about a wimpy kid.
Some youngsters learned how to build cities with Legos, others learned to build worlds in “Minecraft.”
Clearview and High Plains library districts released their top adult and children’s books and movies checked out from their respective branches in 2018. The children have spoken: They want to learn about “Minecraft.”
Six of the top 15 children’s nonfiction books checked out at Clearview Library District were handbooks, guides and even an encyclopedia related to the mega-popular game. A few Lego books were also on the list.
“Maybe we are raising a new generation of engineers and builders,” library director Ann Kling said.
As for children’s fictional books in Clearview, it was all about the “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” saga. Seven of the 10 children’s books checked out at Clearview were from the author Jeff Kinney’s book saga that has inspired merchandise and movies. But the district’s top children’s book in 2018 was not the wimpy kid, but the boy wizard’s second year at Hogwarts in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”
The most-checked-out movie for adults at Clearview was “Molly’s Game,” starring Jessica Chastain as Olympic skier-turned-illegal poker player Molly Bloom and directed by Aaron Sorkin. “The Nut Job 2: Nutty By Nature” was the most popular children’s movie.
John Grisham’s “Camino Island” was the top adult fiction title of the year at Clearview, and Paul Kalanithi’s autobiography “When Breath Becomes Air” was the top nonfiction title among adults.
At High Plains Library District, the sixth installment in Tom Cruise’s “Mission: Impossible — Fallout” was the top adult film checked out, and the TV series “SpongeBob SquarePants” was the top children’s video checked out. The most popular adult fiction title was “A Delicate Touch” and the most popular nonfiction title was Michelle Obama’s “Becoming.”
But people weren’t only checking out books and movies in 2018. Clearview Library District also allows patrons to rent “explore kits” that allow people to test out pieces of technology before spending money on it to own.
Explore kits are divided into two categories: The more popular ones can be checked out for a week, and the rest can be checked out for a couple weeks.
A Sphero Mini, an app-controlled robotic ball, was the most checked-out kit among the seven-day options, and the Electronic Snap Circuits electronic toy was the most popular among the other category.
The troubled production of Minecraft: The Movie appears to have gained some forward momentum with the hiring of Jim Berney as visual effects supervisor according to a report by Discussing Film. Berney has previously worked on films such as The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Polar Express, and Aquaman.View image on Twitter
Steve Carell was thought by many to be involved back in 2016 but little has been said on his connection to the film since then. Little is known about Minecraft: The Movie at this stage and it’s even unclear if it will be animated, live-action, or a mix of the two.
Microsoft purchased the popular Minecraft video game franchise in late-2014 and has since continued to develop the brand with continued updates to the base game, support for crossplay between most version of it, loads more Minecraft merchandise, a Telltale Games video game, and even Minecraft-themed Xbox One consoles and controllers.
