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Minecraft on Windows 10 is a brand new, separate game

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Minecraft for Windows 10 revealed

Looking back at events that transpired before Microsoft chose to reveal HoloLens, it’s crystal clear why they threw down $2 billion for the incredibly addictive digital building block game, Minecraft. The good news is that the Windows developers aren’t just reserving their big purchase for their new hologram mimicking headset. To celebrate the launch of Windows 10 at the end of this month, there’s also going to be a brand new Minecraft – which will be its own game.

Minecraft for Windows 10 will launch in beta on July 29th, becoming Microsoft’s premiere version of the game available via the Windows Store. The good news is that anyone who already owns Minecraft will get it absolutely free – meaning you can begin work on that three year long castle project all over again without hindrance. Everyone else who hasn’t yet been bitten by the foraging fun (like me) will be able to buy in for just $10, as the game begins what will hopefully be an illustrious existence.

It is, however, getting off to an odd start. The Windows 10 version won’t feature the full set of tools that the current, Java-based Minecraft client has – and will go an entirely different direction out of the gates. The sub-par Pocket Edition of Minecraft is being used as a starting point for the beta, with mobile players able to join in with their PC compadres for co-op fun. You’ll be able to get seven other players to join your excavating escapades, while using GameDVR to record every trolling TNT cage you manage to build.

Other than that, there’s really nothing else to write home about concerning the new lead platform that Microsoft will no doubt push from now on. Will it eventually get to the same point as the current PC version? Of course, but how long that takes is really in the new owners hands. And until then, I wouldn’t hold my breath over steady, meaningful updates to the current client.

Last Updated: July 6, 2015

27 Comments

  1. Kromas,powered by windows 10.

    July 6, 2015 at 09:37

    Who else smells incoming feature set DLC priced at 5 bucks a pop?

    That cynicism was brought to you by years of WB/Ubisoft and EA.

    Reply

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      July 6, 2015 at 09:40

      They didn’t spend $2.5 billion for nothing.

      Reply

    • Ranting Raptor

      July 7, 2015 at 08:36

      Yeeeeeep

      Reply

  2. Dutch Matrix

    July 6, 2015 at 09:40

    Good Morning all the wonderful Lazygamer readers and staff!
    I hope you guys have an awesome week!
    Love.
    Dutch.

    Reply

    • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

      July 6, 2015 at 09:42

      Dammit you made me remember it is Monday! 🙁

      Reply

      • Ottokie

        July 6, 2015 at 09:42

        It’s Monday !?!

        Reply

        • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

          July 6, 2015 at 09:47

          /mind trick “This isn’t the start of the week”
          /mind trick “It is nearly Wednesday”
          /mind trick ” Move along”

          Reply

          • Ottokie

            July 6, 2015 at 09:49

            You mean the same way you are happy at 1 pm because in 3 hours you will only have 1 hour left before going home.

          • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

            July 6, 2015 at 09:51

            Yeah but I have a 3 hour drive back home at the moment due to the current site project I am working on.

            Take aways and ARK FTW!

          • Ottokie

            July 6, 2015 at 09:53

            Well the driving sucks, but ARK can cheer anyone up, and before you know it, it’s already past 12 midnight. That game is a vicious time sink.

          • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

            July 6, 2015 at 09:54

            We ramped up our difficulty and on Saturday all hell broke loose trying to tame a Rex. At least Princess Fluffybutt got tamed 6 deaths later.

          • Ottokie

            July 6, 2015 at 09:55

            Tamed 2 Albino Rex’s and was leveling and roaring at new peeps all weekend long. Good times…

          • Kromas,powered by windows 10.

            July 6, 2015 at 09:57

            Taming a lvl 66 Rex took 4 guys 600 arrows and 6 excruciating hours of dying or nearly dying to about 4 rexes, 1 spino, several sabertooth tigers and one particular annoying dilo.

          • Ottokie

            July 6, 2015 at 10:13

            Wow that’s gotta suck to do, these rex’s take a hell of a lot of time to tame.

        • Alien Emperor Trevor

          July 6, 2015 at 09:48

          Well I started playing W3, then went to sleep sometime later, and now I’m at work. Yup, Monday. 🙁

          Reply

    • Alien Emperor Trevor

      July 6, 2015 at 09:43

      Flagged as spam. Doesn’t seem genuine to me.

      Reply

      • Admiral Chief's Adventure

        July 6, 2015 at 09:44

        It brought up about 78 spam notifications…FROM A SINGLE COMMENT

        Reply

      • Ottokie

        July 6, 2015 at 09:44

        Had to start early with flag spam this morning.

        Reply

    • VampyreSquirrel

      July 6, 2015 at 09:57

      Who are you and what did you do to Dutch!??!?!??

      Reply

  3. Ottokie

    July 6, 2015 at 09:42

    Well at least we enjoyed Minecraft while it lasted xD. Hopefully with the “new” Minecraft, the old one will be left in tact and DLC free

    Reply

  4. konfab

    July 6, 2015 at 09:50

    I view this as a good thing, Minecraft: Java edition is unnecessarily heavy on resources.

    This is why my phone can play Minecraft, but my windows tablet can’t.

    Reply

    • VampyreSquirrel

      July 6, 2015 at 09:57

      You can set it to use a certain amount of memory.

      Just saying.

      Reply

      • konfab

        July 6, 2015 at 09:59

        True, but it still runs terribly compared to mobile

        Reply

        • VampyreSquirrel

          July 6, 2015 at 10:01

          Agreed… and Terraria is about as heavy on resources.

          Reply

  5. VampyreSquirrel

    July 6, 2015 at 09:59

    Hahahaha… so much for carrying on with that world you’ve spent thousands of hours on… hahahahaha.

    I don’t see them allowing you to import them… why you ask? Because Micro$oft

    Reply

  6. juliette_tanderson

    July 6, 2015 at 10:16

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