Minecraft hits 500,000 in sales prior to Hallowe’en update
[ED Note: Minecraft has now racked up over 1,000,000 sales.]
Minecraft, the indie sandbox game from Markus “Notch” Persson, has racked up 500,000 units sold as of about an hour ago, according to the real time counter on the top of the Minecraft home page. As of this writing it’s sitting at 500431. Though the game was first released back in July of 2009, the game, which is still in alpha stage, has seen a surge of popularity in the gaming community since late summer of this year.
Minecraft is an online game which uses the visual conventions of a first person shooter for constructive purposes, literally. You can bash your way through solid rock to carve tunnels or switch into construction mode and lay down bricks, wood, or sod with the ease of a Counterstrike avatar changing up from shotgun to rocket launcher. People spend hours in solo and mutual construction projects of varying degrees of whimsy, beauty, and complexity. Build it and they’ll come an build with it. Further proof that the difference between an ant’s nest and the pyramids is largely a matter of direction. [Peter C’s description]
If you haven’t yet checked the game out, there’s both a free Minecraft Classic and the Minecraft Alpha available. While still in alpha, you can pick it up for half the €20.00 price when it’s finally ‘released’. Indiegames.com also has a preview of the new Hallowe’en update due out for the game, unsurprisingly planned to be released on Oct 31st.
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