Xbox 360 Edition

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Minecraft Xbox Edition is a version of Minecraft for Xbox 360 consoles, announced at the 2011 E3 conference by Notch and Microsoft. MineCon attendees will have a chance to play the Xbox Edition before it's released.^[1]

Objective and Gameplay

The objective is similar to existing PC versions, where the player is allowed to build freely using blocks in a sandbox-like environment. The player will optionally^[2] be able to make use of Xbox Kinect functionality to assist in their gameplay.^[3]

Development

Notch has confirmed that he will be the game designer on the Xbox Edition, as well as the Pocket Edition, but will not be involved in programming these editions.^[4] Notch later announced the team developing the game will be 4J studios.^[5]^[6] Daniel Kaplan tweeted about receiving an early copy of Minecraft for Xbox on September 7th, 2011.^[7]

Release

It is due for release in Spring of 2012.^[8]^[9]

Other Consoles

On October 24th Notch announced that Xbox would be the sole console provider of Minecraft.^[10]

Trivia

4J Studios, the company responsible for the port to Xbox 360, was also responsible for several other video game ports, namely The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion for the PS3.

References

[1] ttps://twitter.com/#!/newbreedofnerd/status/128581309370077185

[2] ttp://twitter.com/notch/status/77817236391346177

[3] ttp://www.ifc.com/news/2011/06/e3-2011-minecraft-kinect-xbox-360.php

[4] ttp://notch.tumblr.com/post/6385865216/post-e3-information-dump

[5] ttp://twitter.com/notch/status/81124564104515584

[6] ttp://twitter.com/notch/status/81124399985598464

[7] ttp://twitter.com/Kappische/status/111533621449461761

[8] ttp://twitter.com/notch/status/77911801718767616

[9] ttp://twitter.com/danfrisk/status/79449610241847297

[10] ttps://twitter.com/#!/notch/status/128564849809694720

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