Microsoft Announces Closed Beta for Its AR-Powered Minecraft Earth Game for iPhones

Microsoft is starting the next phase for Minecraft with the first closed beta of its AR-powered Minecraft Earth game.
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Microsoft Bringing Minecraft to the Real-World With New Minecraft Earth Game

Microsoft announces new AR-based Minecraft game titled Minecraft Earth that brings the Minecraft universe to the real-world.
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How Hackers Exploit Online Games

Legitimate platforms like online gaming services are a breeding ground for hackers, with in-game currencies and micro-transactions putting a target on the gaming industry’s back Online games have also provided a testing ground for hackers keen to… Continue reading How Hackers Exploit Online Games

Maker Faire NY: Getting Physical with Minecraft

If you’ve been hanging around Hackaday for a while, you’ve likely seen a few attempts to bridge the real world with the voxel paradise that is Minecraft. In the past, projects have connected physical switches to virtual devices in the game, or took chunks of the game’s blocky landscape and turned it into a 3D printable file. These were interesting enough endeavors, but fairly limited in their scope. They assumed you had an existing world or creation in Minecraft that you wanted to fiddle with in a more natural way, but didn’t do much for actually playing the game.

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