by Stone Marshall | Jan 2, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
The final Minecraft update for Wii U, Xbox 360, PS3, and PlayStation Vita will release this week. It is a bittersweet moment for all players as 4J Studios is ending all support for those last-generation platforms. The update will arrive today, December 18, for some platforms and tomorrow, December 19, for other platforms. All of the other platforms are also receiving the update, too.
The final Minecraft update for those systems is The Nightmare Before Christmas update. The update brings spooky goodies like a Nightmare Before Christmas mash-up pack, fixes for various crashes as you would expect, and more. In addition, it also brings the end of support for those platforms. However, 4J Studios gave no word on online support so we expect the servers to remain online for the time being.
If you haven’t upgraded your Minecraft game from those older platforms to their newer counterparts, now is a great time. This is especially true given that the same update will be also released on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and Nintendo Switch this week. If you’re wondering what the exact update versions are for those older platforms, we’ve got those as well.
For Xbox 360 players, it is known as Title Update 73. On Wii U, it is known as Title Update 42. Finally, on PS3 and PlayStation Vita, it is known as version 1.82. Interestingly enough, there was no information given on future support for the Nintendo 3DS version of Minecraft. That version was released after all four of the ill-fated versions so it remains to be seen what will happen to it.
On a more bittersweet note, 4J Studios also tweeted out a photo of the studio packing up all of their PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and PlayStation Vita development kits. Now that support for those versions is done, it seems there is no need for the kits anymore.
by Stone Marshall | Jan 1, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Last gen Minecraft players will soon be a thing of the past as PS3, Vita and much of the last generation of consoles will start lagging behind. The release of Minecraft onto consoles was a shaky one due to its already large community on PC. Mojong, however, pushed forward and released it on all major consoles in the last generation.
It proved to be enough of a success to warrant them releasing it to the current, as well. However, the world of technology is always changing. This has led to the last generation of console slowly fizzling out of the mainstream.
Microsoft, the parent company of Mojong, announced earlier this year that the now-released Update Aquatic was going to be their last big effort to bring the older generation up-to-date. According to a blog post by Minecraft staff, the older generation consoles make up very little of their user-base and they are not going to put resources in a small number, even if they want to.
Although we’d love to keep bringing new content to all our players forever, the older generation of consoles now make up less than 5% of our active players, so we’ve made the difficult decision to focus our efforts to support players where they play Minecraft the most and where we plan to add new features . . .
This doesn’t mean you can’t play it, it just means that no new conntent will be added.
What do you think? Is it sad to see this go or do you just not care because of all the consoles it’s on?
by Stone Marshall | Jan 1, 2019 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Creative mode, to launch on 6 December, will let gamers construct and play in their own environments without fear of attack
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Fable of the reconstruction … Fortnite Creative mode. Photograph: Epic Games
The hit video game Fortnite is to get a Creative mode, allowing players to design and play on their own islands.
In a major addition to the title, the new mode lets players fly freely around the environment, placing scenic elements, then designing their own mini-games to play with friends.
Developer Epic Games is launching the new option, named Fortnite Creative, on 6 December.
Best known for its free online multiplayer mode, Battle Royale, in which 100 players land on an island and shoot each other until only one remains, Fortnite has become one of the most successful video games of the last decade. With more than 200 million players worldwide, the game makes around $300m a month for its developer, most of that from in-game purchases of skins and emotes.
Set to be available from the main Fortnite menu in addition to the current modes, Save the World and Battle Royale, Creative gives players a choice of island shapes, before giving them access to their own private landscape; using a simple drag and drop interface, they can populate the landscape with a variety of pre-made buildings and scenic objects. It’s then possible to set up a range of mini-games, such as deathmatch shoot-outs and obstacle courses, to play with friends who have been invited on to the player’s server.
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Player-made worlds can be saved to memory and shared with friends. A hub at the outset will also provide access to selected worlds built by other members of the community.
The mode provides an extension to the popular Battle Royale Playground option, which allowed players to land on an island with friends and mess about, making their own objectives. It is similar to the creative mode in the block-building game Minecraft, in which players can similarly create their own buildings and landscapes without worrying about being attacked. It may well answer criticism from some parents that Fortnite concentrates too heavily on killing other players.
For the first week, only those players who purchase a Season Seven Battlepass will have access to the new mode; from 13 December, it will be free for all.
Since the launch of Fortnite Battle Royale in September 2017, developer Epic Games has regularly updated the game, adding new modes and scenic features for every three-month “season”. Creative mode is the biggest change in the past year, and is likely to be highly popular with the game’s vast YouTuber and Twitch streamer community.
by Stone Marshall | Dec 31, 2018 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Minecraft has received one last-minute hotfix update for the PS4. Here’s what new and fixed in this update.
4J Studios has released a brand new update for Minecraft PlayStation 4 edition. Last week, they released the holiday update on PS4 and other legacy platforms and announced that they were cutting all support for them going into the new year. They have now followed up the holiday update with a small hotfix that is available to download now on the PS4.
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Minecraft update version 1.84 patch notes can be viewed in full below. They fix a critical crash with the game.
Minecraft Update Version 1.84 Patch Notes For PS4
Change log for Patch 1.84 – December 21st 2018
Fix for a crash that would could occur when loading a world or exploring an existing world.
Fix for Salmon, Pufferfish or Tropical Fish dropping Cod when killed.
That’s it for the patch notes. Minecraft PlayStation 4 Edition along with the Xbox One and Nintendo Switch will continue to get support from 4J Studios heading into the new year. The legacy systems like the PS Vita, PS3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii U are not going to get any future updates.
Minecraft is available now on a variety of devices including the PS4, PS3, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, PC, Smartphones, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. It is one of the most popular games worldwide and has sold through millions of copies.
by Stone Marshall | Dec 31, 2018 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Sad news today if you own Minecraft on Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, or Wii U, as the most recent update for the game will be the last. 4J Studios, the company the developed the game for consoles way back when it was released a few years ago, announced that The Nightmare Before Christmas Mash-up Pack they released on Tuesday will be the last update for the game, as they’ve packed up all their dev kits and posted a tweet letting owners know they were done.
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As we pack up our Xbox 360, PS3, PSVita and WiiU development kits, we're getting all nostalgic 😢
Please share some of your best memories over the past six and a half years of Minecraft on these consoles!
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The company made no mention about the servers or the upkeep or management moving forward, which for us means they will probably keep maintaining them as long as there’s a large enough audience still playing the game on those consoles to justify it. So, on the one hand, you’re getting no more updates for that version of Minecraft, but on the other hand, it’s not going away for now.
by Stone Marshall | Dec 30, 2018 | Awesome Book News, Free, Intro, Minecraft News, Minecraft questions, news, parent-news, State of Stone, Stone Marshall Book News, Stone Marshall Books, Stone Marshall Club, Stone Marshall Minecraft Adventures, Uncategorized |
Since May 2012, when the Xbox 360 version first released, console players have been exploring the ever-expanding world of Minecraft.
And what a six (and a half) years it's been. Minecraft on console opened up the sandbox game to millions more players who didn't have access to a PC.
But console-versions porter 4J Studios has now implemented the final update for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 and Wii U versions of the game. It's the end of an era.
Sort of. You can still play the game, same as always. The studio took to Twitter to announce that The Nightmare Before Christmas Mash-up Pack will be the final content update for last-gen devices. It will roll in either today or tomorrow.
Another tweet, and your replies that proceeded to hit us right in the feels, asked fans to “share some of your best memories over the past six and a half years of Minecraft on these consoles!”
From making portraits of your kids to reminiscing on the game's original tutorials, here's a few notable replies:
Bring part of the games development was….nice 😥 Still remember the reveal at e3 and people going crazy. At least I did 😀
– Kaplan (@Kappische) December 19, 2018
My favorite creative world on my 360 with portraits of my 5 sons, pirate cove and red stone testing base. pic.twitter.com/d2TINlLUJd
– B.F.S.R. (@mobilescreen) December 18, 2018
The iconic dispenser glitch, when we had no creative that thing was a hero :eyes::joy:
– Scott (ECKOSOLDIER) (@eckoxsoldier) December 18, 2018
Some of your best old tutorials there was the best and the classics and i am proud of how far this game has came thanks to @4JStudios @Mojang pic.twitter.com/VH74FnM4f9
– SHAD0WDEM0NYourGamer (@reecejohnston7) December 18, 2018
Console edition wasn't the first or the last version I played but it's my favorite and I have so many good memories. Playing with past friends, minigames like glide, getting up early for updates on TUesdays, working on my survival world, building this 64×64 cauldron pixel art pic.twitter.com/qYhLQUtgWV
– Kacee (@CowzerOwzer7) December 18, 2018
In total, there's been 73 updates for Minecraft on Xbox 360 since its launch, with over 21 million players picking it up on that console alone.
In the summer, Microsoft announced that Minecraft had over 91 million active monthly users – crazy numbers. I suppose it is the second most sold/played game ever. Behind only Tetris, no less.
It will be interesting to see how, if it all, the final last-gen update affects the game's player base. But remember, it's not going anywhere. It's simply found its final state. Which, still, is pretty sad
What do you think about this news? Do you play Minecraft on old consoles? Will you be sad to see those last-gen updates end? What's your favourite memory? Let us know.
