The Swedish association Dataspelsbranschen believes that video games should be included in Sweden’s official “cultural canon” — a list of the country’s landmark works of art. It has selected 15 games that, in its opinion, are most worthy of being a part of it.

Markus Persson, also known as Notch, wrote on social media about the launch of his new studio called Bitshift Entertainment. She is working on a voxel “bagel” with elements of a loot shooter.

Minecraft is very popular in the United States, according to analyst Mat Piscatella from Circana. According to him, last month 22% of American gamers who played on consoles and PCs, at least once launched this game.

Minecraft has a new achievement. During the presentation of Minecraft Live 2023, Mojang Studio announced that sales of the game exceeded 300 million copies.

On Wednesday, the Minecraft developer published an appeal to the players. In it, she said that she was in the process of updating user guidelines. In light of this, the company decided to clarify its attitude to NFT. She’s against them. Mojang is not going to support them or allow them into Minecraft. The statement caused a resonance.

Analysts from Newzoo have compiled a portrait of gamers who play metaverse games. Such projects today include Roblox, Fortnite and Minecraft. Their audience is much younger than users of “traditional” titles and actively uses games for socialization.Fortnite

Due to the peculiarities of the legislation of South Korea, Minecraft in the country automatically became an adult game. Today it is legally possible to play it only from the age of 19. Local teenagers did not like it, and they decided to appeal directly to the president by preparing a petition.

Today, the concept of metaverses in the gaming industry is becoming increasingly popular. Microsoft reported that the authors of content for Minecraft have already earned over $350 million on it. And individual game developers for Roblox earn hundreds of thousands and even millions of dollars a year. We tell you what metaverses are and why developers are actively investing in them.

In Russia, the rapid growth of sales of video game toys continues — over the past year they have increased 3.5 times. At the same time, a new study by The NPD Group notes stagnation in the toy market for films and cartoons.Highlights of the report

The charts of the best-selling new IP in British retail for a decade have arrived. Minecraft and Destiny, respectively, became bestsellers in pieces and in money.

Minecraft‘s audience has reached 480 million users. Most of the user accounts are registered in China.

100 million users play Roblox every month. Perhaps now this children’s social MMO is more popular than Minecraft.

In May, the global phenomenon of Minecraft will be 10 years old. In honor of this event, Microsoft has planned a solemn anniversary, which, however, did not invite the creator of the game — Markus Persson (Markus Persson).

The game will soon be available to Xbox Game Pass subscribers.

Nintendo and Microsoft have launched a joint advertising campaign in honor of the release of the Minecraft multiplatform update. “It’s better together,” the competitors assure, while Sony continues to resist and does not allow playing under the same account on different platforms.

The Fortnite MMO project of Epic Games has taken another peak in the pursuit of world fame and popularity. The online action movie has outstripped the legendary Minecraft sandbox in terms of the number of Google searches.

The creators of the game content for the Minecraft Marketplace store earned $1 million in two months of its existence.

Minecraft’s circulation on all platforms has exceeded 121 million copies since its release in 2011.

For seven years of existence, the game “about cubes” has sold a total circulation of 107 million versions sold.