NEWS
ROUND-UP
Just as we were going to press last issue, it
was officially announced that Minecraft was
to be added to the Xbox GamePass service.
This is the monthly membership service
Microsoft offers Xbox gamers, where you
pay afixed monthly sum to get ac cess to lots
of games.
The game was added on 4th April, which
should mean even more people are now
joining in the joy of Minecraft. If any of you
have made it to this magazine, a very warm
welcome to you!MINECRAFT ON
GAME PASS
Minecraft is soon to hit its 10th birthday,
believe it or not, and the first version of
the game came out for PCs rather than
consoles or tablets. Minecraft is already
one of the biggest selling games of all time
for the PC, but now anew sales landmark
has been hit: the 30 millionth copy sold!
In fact, when we went to take a look, the
tracker totting up sales had no tched up a
further 32,000 on top of that.
The PC version isn’t the best selling
version of the game –the Pocket Edition
and console versions ar e aheadof it – but
that’s still a hu gely impressive nu mber!NEW SALE
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