Nintendo debuted a new advertisement last week that unveiled a marketing collaboration with Microsoft to promote cross-over gaming for the popular title Minecraft, which received a massive update to enables cross-play with PC, Xbox One, and smartphones. In the advertisements, the two gaming giants make indirect, but clear slights towards industry competitor Sony.

"Minecraft" continues to be one of the most popular games ever made. The creation/survival indie game that Microsoft purchased back in 2014 for $2.5 billion has now sold 144 million copies, and enjoys a monthly userbase of 74 million players. The latest numbers were revealed in an interview with Helen Chiang, the new head of Microsoft's "Minecraft" group, at PopSugar.

At San Francisco's de Young Museum, an interactive dive into the ruined pre-Columbian metropolis.

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Elfdalian fights for recognition in its home country but finds a second life on the internet.

The Oregon Trail is perhaps the most beloved educational game ever made — and soon it’ll be getting a new life in schools thanks to Minecraft.

The standalone Minecraft themed Xbox One Controllers have been released in the North American region. If you are interested, you can check out the new gamepads with the following links: Creeper Version and Pig Version. You can also take a look at some images of the Minecraft controllers, as well as Amazon’s list of features for both products, below this paragraph...

Microsoft managed to get Minecraft to display at a full 1080p on Nintendo Switch when docked. The game received a new patch today, that, among other things, upped the resolution when docked from 720p. Microsoft actually said at launch that the decision to limit it to 720p wasn’t because of a lack of power in the Switch. It left the door open for a future upgrade, and it looks like Mojang figured it out.

Sunlight yellow, chili red, royal blue, midnight black, grass green, lilac purple, true lime, fresh salmon, hot cappuccino, pretty much all of the off-white, annoying cyan, alpha-tested magenta, that brown-greenish barf shade... the World of Color update is here! (Minecraft Java Edition 1.12, editor's note.)

As you all know, Microsoft’s Project Scorpio is set to be release this holiday season. The company has been working on the console for a while now, and we’ll get to know more about the games for the upcoming machine at E3 2017 next month. However, we’ll likely get some early leaks before E3 as per usual. That’s the nature of the business! Well, let’s start the trend, shall we? According to our sources, Mojang’s Minecraft will be one of the 4K launch titles for Project Scorpio.

Microsoft has announced a new storefront for selected user-made Minecraft content on mobile and Windows 10, which will go live alongside the game's 1.1 Discovery update this spring. Applicable only to the C++ "Bedrock Engine" editions of the game - that's to say, not to console or the original Java PC version - it lets approved creators and teams sell their Minecraft maps, skins and other assets using a virtual currency, Minecraft Coins, the idea being to boost the game's community of entrepreneurial artists while making it easier for players to track down the best Minecraft maps.

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Microsoft has made some changes to Minecraft's Commercial Usage Guidelines.

How about taking pixelated graphics and using a neural network to increase their resolution, using example photos or textures? We attempted it for Minecraft with an open source project… Just over a month ago, we released Neural Doodle: a deep learning project to transfer the style from one image onto another. The script allows anyone to reuse existing Art and Photos to improve their two-bit doodles. There’s now a growing number of developers experimenting and posting their results...

Jordan wanted to build an unpredictable trap. An 11-year-old in dark horn-­rimmed glasses, Jordan is a devotee of Minecraft, the computer game in which you make things out of virtual blocks, from dizzying towers to entire cities. He recently read “The Maze Runner,” a sci-fi thriller in which teenagers live inside a booby-­trapped labyrinth, and was inspired to concoct his own version — something he then would challenge his friends to navigate.

Windows 98 Machine Specs: (I forgot most of the specs and say the wrong things in the video a lot so use this as the proper guide):

When you dig into the numbers of Valve's Steam Hardware and Software Survey, it becomes clear that the number of Linux users has grown.

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Yet more proof that Minecraft is more than just a game comes our way today. Microsoft already has plans to use the platform, which it bought for $2.5 billion, to help kids learn and for virtual reality, and now we can add artificial intelligence development to that list, too. Today, Microsoft announced a project that enables artificial intelligence researchers to tap into the hit title to sculpt and develop their tech. AIX is a new software development platform that researchers can use to...