Minecraft 1.5 coming in 'roughly two weeks'

Looks very interesting indeed.Can't wait to deploy this on my server and start anew!

I have spent so many hours on my world in Minecraft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCwwEep9B8Q

Glorious Redstone come to me. I am ready. Ready to build my time machine that can also play Tetris while traveling back in time to destroy whoever created the #%^@ Creepers.

I sort of feel like Minecraft has lost it's way. Nothing revolutionary has happened since they added a hunger bar and an experience meter. It's still good... but they definitely need to step up their game to keep people interested.

In my experience, the people who have an extreme dislike for this game tend to not be very intelligent. They don't posses any kind of creative or analytical ability, nor the attention span, to create something bigger than a 5x5 square house.

I get that not everyone can get into a game where you must actually think, where the enjoyment only goes as far as the imagination and skill of the user, but even still, running around forums and bashing people who like this game is really just like walking around with a big sign that reads "look at me, I'm a moron".

all smiles here

good article, but regarding to the few first paragraph, creating emotional games doesn't need top notch tech, amazing graphics , fluid animation , etc. it require heart more than anything. look at "To The Moon", it was created with RPG maker but the story is so engaging and emotional

I never understood the need for people to insult Minecraft. I'm not a painter, I do not like working with paint or a canvass but I'd never go tell someone that enjoys painting that painting is stupid and not fun. Then proceed to insult that person for enjoying working with paint. 

Minecraft is the same way, for people that are creative and like to build things the game is insanely addictive. Not to mention you can get together with your friends and build unbelievable worlds plus the 1000's of mods that add all kinds of crazy stuff to the game. 

 Just recently a group of guys finished a map with Bioshock's Rapture built into it.

20 million? :o

Good to see one of the best and most unique games this generation selling this good!

i couldnt get into this game but some of the shit people make it insane

I still dont "get" minecraft

nothing at all appeals to me. On the otherhand i totally understand the lunacy and insane glory of the madness that occurs within Garys Mod!

You mean Minecraft is finally going to do something new?  Wow.

>>Stairs no longer prevent sprinting

FREEDOM, FREEDOM AT LAST

Sweet, I like the how they have separated all the textures into individual files now. Instead of one giant file. Now we can easily pick and choose which textures we want from each pack and build are own custom ones.