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Minecraft Pictionary Strikes Again with Unguessable 3D Doodles
Lately, our favourite Minecraft pastime is a mash-up of Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition's creative mode and Pictionary. Can you guess our inscrutable 3D doodles? Can we? Watch and find out.
Minecraft Pictionary Returns, Shames Our Drawing Skills
Ah, Minecraft Pictionary. It's the 3D blockery of Minecraft meets the inscrutable drawings of Pictionary in which you've got two minutes to do the bidding of a Pictionary card in Minecraft's creative mode. We play this crossover of our own devising in the video after the jump.
Minecraft Xbox 360 Update: Spawn Egg Jamboree
Minecraft's latest big update is upon us. We put one world's animal population limit to the test with the new spawn egg items, which let you pop into being new friendly creatures, villagers and enemy mobs with the pull of a trigger.
Minecraft Update Trailer Goes Ender Dragon Hunting
Upcoming Minecraft Xbox 360 title update TU9 opens the way to desolate dimension The End, where lives the mighty Ender Dragon. Watch these blocky heroes go on an Ender Dragon hunt in this trailer.
Minecraft Xbox 360 Teases Update With Screenshots
Here's a tantalising screenshot montage teasing the TU9 update for Minecraft on the Xbox 360. Come on through for spawn eggs, item frames, climbable vines and an Ender Dragon.
Let's Play: Minecraft Pictionary
We haven't played Minecraft for a while, so we jumped back in with a rousing session of Minecraft Pictionary, a game we just invented which you play like regular Pictionary, only instead of drawing the thing on the card you clumsily build it in Minecraft.
Let's Play: Indie Game Minecraft Clones
CastleMiner Z and CastleMiner were Xbox Live's two bestselling Indie Games of last year. Both bear a striking resemblance to sandbox blockbuster Minecraft. We put them and more of the marketplace's Minecraft clones up against the Outside Xbox buzzer test in this video.
Let's Play Minecraft Xbox: Nether Fortress Quest
We hunt down a new nether fortress, as added by the recent Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition update, on a kind of terrifying hell safari. Lava wells and blaze spawners and nether warts, oh my!
Let's Play Minecraft: Animal Breeding Challenge
The recent Minecraft Xbox title update added adorable baby animals by way of its animal breeding system. Here's how it works. Watch on for competitive animal husbandry and cute baby critters.
Let's Play Minecraft: Meet Our Snow Golem Army
Here's how to make a Minecraft snow golem, the friendly snow monster added to Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition in the recent title update. But why stop at one? Watch the Outside Xbox snow golem army march to victory.
Minecraft Update Arrives Tomorrow With Babies
There's a new Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition update out tomorrow, Wednesday 19 December. The catchily titled TU7 Update adds adorable baby animals, potion brewing and experience points to the XBLA game, among other exciting things. Find update details after the jump.
Let's Play Minecraft: Christmas Challenge Special
Outside Xbox puts up the decorations in this Minecraft Christmas Special, in which we build a giant Santa, snowman (snowcreeper?) and festive fir. There is also skating and snowball fighting, to complete the seasonal Minecraft Xbox caper. Merry Christmas!
Our 5 Most Wanted Minecraft Texture Packs
4J Studios, the developer behind Minecraft on Xbox 360, has tweeted that texture pack support is on the way. Texture packs will bring alternative looks for the bricks and mortar (and grass and cobblestone) of Minecraft's simple, blocky landscapes, replacing default textures with whatever 4J has in mind.
Halo 4 Tops Xbox Live Chart
Halo 4 has gone straight to number one on the Xbox Live activity chart for the week of November 5, landing above regular chart topper Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, as well as Minecraft, Call of Duty: Black Ops and FIFA 13.
Outside Xbox's Halloween Minecraft Adventure
We quest for treasure down the Outside Xbox Adventure Hole to celebrate both Halloween and Minecraft taking number one on the Xbox Live activity chart. In taking number one, Minecraft dethrones Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 from the top spot held since launch in November last year - when it in turn toppled Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Minecraft Gets 55 Halloween Skins
The Halloween Charity Skin Pack adds 55 ghoulish get-ups to Minecraft for the Xbox 360, among them more vampires, mummies and Frankensteins than that one Backstreet Boys video, some with flappy capes. See them all in the video above.
Let's Play: Minecraft - Xbox Update 1.8.2
Andy loves to craft but hates to mine, which made XBLA favourite Minecraft only 50 percent his kind of thing. Until now! The enormous Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition Update 1.8.2 has arrived, bringing with it Creative Mode. In this mode, Andy has unlimited materials and items to realise all his blocky visions. He can also fly, which he much prefers to chipping away at coal seams in the bowels of the earth.
Minecraft Update: Blocktopia in Ruins
A little video postcard from Blocktopia following the weekend's open house session. We had fun! Check out our spiffy new volcanoes and wang statue, who stands astride Blocktopia Bay like the Colossus of Rhodes with a cobblestone boner.
Minecraft Xbox Update News
Welcome to Blocktopia! Land of the free, home of the brave, spanned by the transcontinental Blocktopia Express railroad. Look upon my works, ye mighty, and despair.
The enormous 1.8.2 update for Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition might be weeks away, but here are new videos and screenshots to get you good and hungry for it - featuring new food items, new mobs and new naturally spawning structures.
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