Minecraft game maker, Markus Persson, plans to create a new game set in outer space. This swedish man was scheduled to start next summer. But it is uncertain whether it is Minecraft or absolutely new idea.

“Looks like I’ll make the space game, where the main character is an astronaut in outer space exploring the space in the space shuttle,” he said in England, Sunday (03/08) .

Mark claims to have three other projects that he still kept secret. To better focus, the Majong video games  company’s chief decided to resign to be the project leader of Minecraft since last December.

Minecraft is a simple game-building sandbox that runs in the Java programming language. Through this game, Mark successfully won the Special Award in the prestigious British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) in 2012.

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Minecraft a Game developed by Mojang recently generated revenues of $ 80 million. Reportedly the game that released on the platform of Android, IOS and the PC has sold over 5 million units.

Now this Mojang’s blocky world-building PC hit Minecraft come to a console by the hand of 4J Studio. Minecraft jump in to Xbox Live Arcade this week, and that create a tidal wave for the Xbox 360-playing addictive personalities of the world.

For whoever unfamiliar with the term, Minecraft is simply a game of building blocks, where the player is free to do whatever they want — of course within the limitations of the cuboid world’s physical rules. Aided by tools, crafting tables, and furnaces — all of which must be built and rebuilt — the player’s only job is to make their own entertainment in a randomly generated sandbox world.

As reported by Mcvuk, Tuesday (03/27/2012), indie game phenomena such as Minecraft is one which are winning major sales and high revenue for it’s developers. In fact, the developer only hire 25 employees of which can not be fairly campared to the numberof 25 million registered players.

The number of players is likely to increase considering that there were five million new users who have joined in the last month. The development team will not change the gameplay in the near future and the Xbox 360 version will be released on May 9, 2012.

Minecraft games challenge players to explore creativity of construction that allows players to build a stone construction in the 3D world.It’s gameplay has some choice, such as survival which requires the player to obtain resources and keep the life meter and hunger parameter up.

In addition, there are types of creative gameplay that provides unlimited resources of the character, ability to fly and there is no life meter and hunger parameter in character.

Chief executive and founder of Majong game developer, Carl Manneh said Minecraft game will likely be adapted for television programs. “We’ll do it, if the right idea comes from the right person, we will work with him.” said Carl.

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The event of Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in June 2012, will bring many surprises. One of them is that Microsoft will release a so-called music streaming platform for Xbox 360.

TheVerge site is firstly reported. They claim, the news was obtained from realiable sources. TheVerge reported, Friday (04/27/2012) that the music platform has a code name of Woodstock and is designed to replace the Zune, Microsoft’s music service today.

Woodstok reportedly would like Spotify, is connected with popular social networks like Facebook. Thus, users can share what they listen to their friends.

However, when confirmed, Microsoft declined to comment. Meanwhile, another source says Woodstock is likely to be released later this year coincided with the launch of Windows 8.

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The presence of the latest generation of the Xbox – which is touted as Xbox 720 – is not certain yet. But that does not mean this Microsoft’s game console is out of news.

The latest news said that the Xbox 720 is in the process of production. This is confirmed by the news, that Flextronic company based in Austin, Texas,  is working on new Microsoft’s projects.

No need to reveal what is actually Microsoft’s project is, because almost certainly it is the Xbox. The reason is, because Flextronic is ever worked on Xbox and Xbox 360. That is what quoted from Slashgear, Sunday (05/06/2012).

But, wether this rumor is true or not do not expect a new Xbox will be released in the near future. Because some time ago, a Microsoft official make sure that there are no new game consoles, at least until the end of this year.

This means that the E3 gaming expo held next month, most likely without the announcement of the awaited Xbox 720.

The birth of the PlayStationVita video game console  apparently did not get a good response from Shigeru Miyamoto. In an interview, the legendary Nintendo is describing why.

According to the figure behind the popular game Mario and Donkey Kong, the PS Vita is a device that has a heartbreaking construction . “It’s clear it is a hi-spec machine and you can do many things with it. But I do not see a combination of software and hardware that makes it a strong product,” said Miyamoto.

Miyamoto claims, did not comment it because he is a competitor. He further said that the Vita is not a threat to the 3DS.

The argument made ​​by Miyamoto was in tune with the media and analysts as the first PS3 was released. They say, it is actually a powerful system but does not meet the basic needs of a video game system.

Despite the response is not good, but the PS Vita itself scored a nice sales. Quoted from Cnet, Saturday (05/05/2012), it successfully sold over 600,000 in the western region on the first day. In Japan, it scored a total of 325 000 sales in its first week.

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Crytek started to speak out about the features in later Crysis 3 . One was the quality of graphics that will ‘punish’ the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.

Since it was first released, Crysis series was often highlight graphics quality. Even the first series released on 2008  is often used as a graphics card quality standards testing among gamers.

Even so with the next series. Although many assumptions that the next Crysis  graphics quality decreased, it’s tried to be pushed over by Crytek.

“Crysis 3 is better than Crysis 2 and will ‘punish’ the Xbox 360 and PS3 to its limits, and of course the PC version will always be better,” said Cevat Yerli Crytek CEO, as quoted from eximiner, Thursday (04/19 / 2012).

Until now Crysis 3 is still being developed, and if there are no barriers, this First Person Shooter (FPS) game is going to be released in early 2013.

Nintendo launched the NES in Japan on 1983. It’s first version was not quite satisfactory, and Nintendo fix it in the design and controller.  Finally NES became a revolutionary device.

The console is also starting a new era of video games, for example putting a business standard in which the third-party software can produce a gam ebased on Nintendo platforms. The best-selling console game in this era was named the greatest gaming console in history by leading technology site, IGN.

Playstation 2 is the best selling console game of all time. Playstation 2 is still in demand until this moment, which makes it the most long-term production among competitors.

At launch, there are no competitors that are technically and graphics capabilities equivalent to the Playstation 2. Coupled with first-generation Playstation, Playstation 2 had a special place in the hearts of gamers.

Arguably the Atari 2600 video game is the console ancestors. First launched in 1978, the console has become the foundation of the modern game console that came later.

With games like Pitfall and Pac Man, Atari 2600 stepping to the first step in the video game industry that is growing rapidly as we know it today. As a game console it also designed well.