Posted on JJAuthor ian Categories Podcast Tags alexa, apple, bethesda, meta, minecraft, netflix, nft, nhs, twitter, wwdc, xbox DigitalOutbox Episode 222ĭigitalOutbox Episode 222 – Minecraft, iOS8 and U2Ģ:26 – Microsoft is buying Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billionħ:27 – Android One Is Launching in India, but Its a Big Deal for Everyoneġ0:50 – Heartbroken Phones 4u team braces for up to 5,600 redundancies as company goes into administrationġ3:30 – Apple reveals 4m pre-orders for iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus in first 24 hoursĢ5:59 – Amazon unveils the £169 Kindle Voyage, a premium e-reader with haptic page-turningĢ9:16 – Amazon introduces the next-gen Fire HDX 8.9 tablet with the latest Fire OS 4 Sangriaģ1:37 – Destiny becomes UK’s biggest ever new game launch Netflix trials charging $2.99 for shared accounts.Netflix and Microsoft team up for cheaper plan with adverts.Apple will stream every Major League Soccer match for 10 years starting in 2023.Twitter sues Elon Musk over $44bn takeover deal.Elon Musk pulls out of $44bn deal to buy Twitter.NHS App to offer video consultations by 2024.Alexa will soon be able to read stories as your dead grandma.UK plan to scrap cookie consent boxes will make it ‘easier to spy’ on web users.Meta is launching an avatar store, and designer clothes are the first products.Minecraft says ‘No F-ing Thanks’ to NFTs.Xbox Cloud Gaming coming to Samsung 2022 TVs.Microsoft confirms work on ‘Keystone’ Xbox game streaming dongle.Xbox & Bethesda Games Showcase 2022: All The Biggest Game Announcements.APPLE SHIPPED ME A 79-POUND IPHONE REPAIR KIT TO FIX A 1.1-OUNCE BATTERY.So it’s likely we’ll see more games open up their code for custom modifications as Minecraft has done.Chris and Ian are in catchup mode – WWDC, Xbox, Netflix Minecraft’s success sets a lot of standards that other independent developers are now aspiring to. Zynga took a similar approach in order to quickly release several games and promote them. Successes like Minecraft are hard to come by and usually take a little bit of luck and some counter-intuitive strategy - like releasing a half-finished game and letting a community play-test it, Persson said in a question-and-answer session on news aggregator Reddit. ![]() Players have built some crazy things within the Minecraft world, from a completely operational computer to a scale representation of the earth. The game exploded in popularity because its building mechanics make it easy to create incredibly complex objects, and the game’s “Redstone” material generates an electric current. But Persson said he doesn’t have any plans to go the entrepreneurial route like Mark Pincus once took when founding Zynga. The game even has its own Wiki, because of just how many things players can do in the world. It spawned a number of online communities, such as one on Reddit. Instead of using a publisher, game creator Markus Persson relied on viral communities to spread word about the game. ![]() ![]() Players have even taken a few shots at using Minecraft to create artistic videos that have become pretty popular on video-sharing sites like YouTube. Enterprise featured in the Star Trek series to a giant cannon powered by 73 blocks of TNT with the sole purpose of launching a cow to the moon in a mining cart. Projects range from a scale representation of the U.S.S.
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