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GTA V tops US' best-selling games of decade in Call of Duty-laden list

GTA V tops US' best-selling games of decade in Call of Duty-laden list

It's that time of the decade when it's time to reflect on which games did best, and NPD Group's chart of best performing games in dollar sales is out. Interestingly, most of the list are Call of Duty titles, although the top dog is GTA 5.

JANUARY 17

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition landing on PS4 tomorrow with cross-play

Minecraft: Bedrock Edition landing on PS4 tomorrow with cross-play

Even though Minecraft has been on PlayStation 4 for a while now, the Bedrock Edition that launches tomorrow means that PS4 owners are getting the platform-unified version of Mojang's game, which in turn means they're finally capable of firing it up in cross-play.

DECEMBER 9

Minecraft saving bees in new partnership with WWF

Minecraft saving bees in new partnership with WWF

Minecraft is getting a bee-centric update next week in partnership with WWF. The update will be heralded in by three live streams hosted in the US, Brazil and Australia. A new community challenge will take place from 13 December until 15 December 2019.

DECEMBER 4

Minecraft introduces Geforce RTX ray tracing

Minecraft introduces Geforce RTX ray tracing

Microsoft and Mojang have just announced that Minecraft will be teaming up with Nvidia to deliver Geforce RTX ray tracing to the mega-popular blocky sandbox, and judging by the demo, players are getting a really sweet eye-candy update.

AUGUST 19

Roblox hits 100 million monthly players

Roblox hits 100 million monthly players

On the wings of several promotions as of late, the Roblox Corporation announced that Roblox has reached 100 million monthly active users, which means it's ahead of Mojang's Minecraft, which averages around 90 million users per month.

AUGUST 3

Minecraft Java improves Villager memory

Minecraft Java improves Villager memory

Mojang and Microsoft have updated Minecraft: Java Edition to version 1.14.4, which fixes some leftover issues from the earlier update and endows Villagers with better memory and pathfinding, larger inventory, and overall better performance.

JULY 23

Playing Minecraft can help with creativity

Playing Minecraft can help with creativity

Even though psychology is pretty clear on the importance of games to just about every aspect of human development, adding the 'video' moniker tends to skew those opinions to some radical ends. Well, no more, as Iowa State University proved.

JULY 12

Minecraft hits 1.36bn mod downloads in China

Minecraft hits 1.36bn mod downloads in China

Minecraft has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and even though it's racking up milestones like crazy, all of them seem to pale in comparison to the results of NetEase's Minecraft in China, which reached 1.36 billion mod downloads.

JUNE 1

Minecraft has sold 176m copies thus far

Minecraft has sold 176m copies thus far

Minecraft's recent anniversary has already given us Minecraft World and a bunch of other information, but among them is a particularly notable one of 176 million sold copies, which puts the game and developer in some exclusive company.

MAY 20

Minecraft hits 200 million users in China

Minecraft hits 200 million users in China

NetEase have posted results for the first quarter of 2019 and the company's launch of Minecraft in China is turning into a proper success story, as the game's headcount increased to 200 million players, a worthy achievement indeed.

MAY 16

Why not play Minecraft from your browser?

Why not play Minecraft from your browser?

In celebration of the upcoming anniversary of one of the most popular games on the planet, Minecraft, Mojang decided to make the game's legacy version from 2009 playable through browsers, together with all the original quirks and bugs.

MAY 8

Notch won't be part of Minecraft anniversary

Notch won't be part of Minecraft anniversary

Microsoft have officially confirmed that Minecraft creator Notch will not be a part of Minecraft's 10-year anniversary event plans because of his controversial comments and opinions, which do not reflect those of Microsoft or Mojang.

Semir OmerovicAPRIL 29