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Ooops, we forgot to mention, Minecraft is officially launched, but you knew that already

So last weekened was the big MineCon in vegas, where 5000 met to celelbrate the release with @notch and the rest of Mojang. As we here at grig can’t afford a plane ticket, 3 nights in a hotel, and the … Continue reading

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Puff the magic dragon, lives by the sea

I hope that title isn’t copyright infringing, anyhoo, i can no longer contain my excitement, i like dragons, they’re cool, there’s been some good movies with dragons “DragonHeart”, “how to train your dragon”, “Eragon”, and classic cartoons “Dungeons and Dragons” … Continue reading

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Ludum Dare August 2011 is over and sleep is good

The competition for rapid game development is over, for now. My humble attempt can be found here https://www.grigorig.com/files/twister2.html it’s called twister, as the them was escape, though you can’t actually escape it as it gets faster and mows you down … Continue reading

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Live streaming is expensive, notch pulls the plug at 17000 viewer hours

Its been an interesting afternoon, i spent some time animating an awesome tornado in flash (i joke). While half watching (sorry notch) the live stream video feed of Markus Persson as he writes a dungeon explorer style game for the … Continue reading

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Notch challenges Bethesda to a quake 3 match

Notch of Minecraft fame has challenged Bethesda to a duel, two 20 minute matches on quake 3, Mojang’s best 3 players vs Bethesda’s best 3, each select a map, total frags over both wins. This i’ve got to see, i … Continue reading

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Minecraft, buy one, get one free this weekend

In celebration of @notch’s wedding to Ez this weekend, Mojang is giving away one free gift code of minecraft if you buy the game(not a gift code), now just to be clear, it states buying the game and not buying … Continue reading

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Bethesda’s lawyers go outters on @notch mojang

What! we hear you cry, this can’t be, we love notch, why would they do such a thing, apparently the name “scrolls” which is Mojangs other game in development, is infringing trademark on The Elder Scrolls Skyrim name, they’re worried … Continue reading

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Minecraft whats coming up, notch recaps whats been leaked so far

We know that notch has got a lot on his plate at the moment, the fellas getting married in August, he was cake tasting earlier and met a fan according to his tweet, but in his latest blog post over … Continue reading

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Minecraft gets a release date 11/11/11 pure poetry in numbers

At the risk of literally repeating everything notch has said over at his blog http://notch.tumblr.com. Mojang had a meeting today and decided to say that Minecraft will be released on the 11th November 2011. Now i know what you’re thinking, … Continue reading

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Mojang win March Mayhem 2011 the Developers Showdown

Over at http://www.escapistmagazone.com they seem to have an annual contest by which you, the voters, vote for game developers in a series of rounds. This takes place during the majority of March and ends in April. Last year another favourite … Continue reading

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