Harold & Frank are joined by Alex O’Neill of Irrational Passions as they talk Sony going back to the ‘80s (and not in a good way), Minecraft XBLA breaking records and pissing people off, major publishers not having E3 booths, Nunavut, Kinect as a tool to detect autism, Valve & Blizzard making a DOTA deal, Nintendo making Hbomb mad, Farmageddeon, Rovio’s next game, our picks for PlayS... more.

Minecraft... Minecraft... Minecraft... If you still have never heard about this, you surely have been living under a rock for the past few years. The game is everywhere out there and some players have gone insanely crazy over the freedom it gives them to create whatever structure they want to create. Since I am not a big fan of creation modes in video games (LittleBigPlanet, map creators in games ... more.

  News As we drawer ever closer to October 18th - the supposed "final update" before a solid month of bug fixing - the team at Mojang have been working non-stop implementing new features into the game. Over the past few weeks we've seen several new mobs, biomes, items and a whole host of fixes and tweaks, and it seems Notch and Jens have only just begun. notch Me and @jeb_ decided t... more.

  News With Minecraft's official launch just over a month away, development has been pretty much non-stop the past few weeks. Notch and Jens have been working hard to create new and interesting features to implement in the game, as well as tweak the one's already set in place from beta 1.8. notch The plan now is to do another pre release of 1.9 this week. Yeah, it's a beta of a b... more.

  News With the Adventure update well underway and 1.8 in our hands, Notch and Jens have been working hard fixing and tweaking out new toys, as well as working on new things for us to play with. notch By the way, I will nerf the endermen block carrying. It was a horrible idea. I'll be honest, I'm slightly gutted about this one. Sure, Endermen could very slowly dismantle your base, ... more.

  News After a good, long wait it seems 1.8, the "Adventure Update", is finally upon us! Upon it's release, Notch had this to say in his blog: We released Minecraft Beta 1.8! It’s the first half of the Adventure Update, with the remainder coming eventually! Looking around the office, everyone appears to be keeping busy. Jens is working on some content for the Nether, Daniel and Jak... more.

  News This weeks Minecraft Monday was set to be focused on beta 1.8 anticipated release. Sadly, they never managed to hit their Thursday deadline (it was only an estimated goal, after all). The week started strong, however, with Jens updating twitter regularly on his progress towards the release date, dishing out information along the way. jeb_ People have requested the png for the fo... more.