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Minecraft Sold 30 Million Copies on PC 10 Years After Its Launch

No matter the platform, Minecraft and its editions sold over 150 million copies. The official tracker has shown that PC sales are over 30 million and still rising. It’s been ten years since the initial release to the public, and Minecraft does not let us down for one second.

In 2014, the console sales of this game exceeded the Mac and PC figures, and one year later, the Pocket Edition and the iOS editions have sold 30 million units.

Minecraft is still one of the most popular games out there

In October 2018, Helen Chiang, who’s the head of Minecraft had told some sources that the game as achieved over 90 million monthly active users, and, across all platforms, it has sold over 150 million units. It sure is not much of a surprise, but if you think about other gaming properties, it’s a fantastic achievement. Truth be told, the PC sales for Minecraft only have exceeded some lifetime sales for other franchises, that come with many sequels and many other installments.

It’s safe to say that Minecraft is the best-selling game that was ever made. We are to take a look at its beginning, it started small, and it’s possible that no game will ever reach these much sales again.

Fortnite Battle Royale is the most popular game released since Minecraft rolled out

Let’s take Fortnite as an example. This game is probably the biggest video game released since Minecraft, but it still has Epic behind it, and it clearly had a big company behind the scenes to work on it. Still, the sales are high for Minecraft, who had nothing at the beginning. We simply cannot deny its popularity.

Last week, the Minecraft update got rid of all the references to the Minecraft’s creator Markus Persson, from the splash screens, probably because of his Twitter.

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The Elder Scrolls: Blades – Bethesda Gives Early Access For Player Feedback

This weekend, Bethesda announced that they’re opening the gates for The Elder Scrolls: Blades, allowing more players to get in the Early Access stage of the game. What were the first opinions from major reviewers? Unfortunately for the developer, most of the feedback was negative, all complains were surrounding microtransactions and the chests!

Let’s check out the post on Twitter from The Elder Scrolls:

As you can see, the developers have acknowledged the chest issue and are looking into getting more feedback from the players. If you haven’t tried to play The Elder Scrolls: Blades yet, here’s a few stuff you should know about and why the loot chests are so annoying.

Bethesda Tweaking The Game as We Play It

Player feedback is essential, and it must be taken into consideration. So, those who played The Elder Scrolls: Blades, might have noticed that while the grind is pretty big, and the side quests a bit dull, the game is free-to-play though. Nonetheless, looking at the majority of people writing about the game, the microtransactions are making the game unbearable – and here’s where we talk about the chests you find in dungeons. To open a chest, you have to wait from five seconds (if it’s a wooden chest) to six hours (if it’s a gold chest). Of course, you can skip the waiting with some premium currency. That’s where many players got frustrated.

Skipping past the waiting for chests, the plot is interesting. You’re a former member of the Blades group, and you come home and see everything ablaze. Your goal is to rebuild the entire place on your own. It sure is a lot of work ahead, and we can not wait to see how the story evolves!

For the players that will not invest any money in the game, waiting can be annoying, but let’s admit it, all free to play games with microtransactions add certain limits to the game to make a premium user feel like they’re getting their money’s worth.

How will Bethesda play the premium feel card? Will they tweak the chests and make players pay for other features? Will we see silver lockpicks added in the game for the chest to make them less disappointing?

We can only wait and see what the devs will announce, hopefully taking into consideration the player feedback. Check back here for more news and if you have some thoughts about the game, head over to The Elder Scrolls Twitter page.

The Elder Scrolls: Blades is available on Android an iOS, as an early access. If you haven’t signed up, check out this article to learn how to do it.

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Clash Royale Update Coming in Mid-April: New Game Modes And More

We’ve seen a lot of action and updates in Clash of Clans, but what about Clash Royale? To be fair, we did get some balance changes on April 1 to some troops, but players also want new content.

Fear not, the Clash Royale team has announced on Twitter that they’ve been up to no good this past week and that they’re preparing an update for mid-April.

We headed over to the team’s Reddit post and discovered some of the new stuff that will be added to the game this month:

  •     A new, streamlined progression system for Ladder (1v1)
  •     New game modes

More to be revealed at a later date…

Among other stuff that will be tweaked or introduced, we will also get a new challenge every 48 hours starting with Tuesday, the team adding that it “will be a great chance to earn rewards ahead of the update.”

Also, when the update goes live, CRL 20 Win profile badges will be received.

The Clash Royale team explained that this update will not come next week, but it’s bound to roll out in Mid-April. While they didn’t want to reveal more details about the content of the update, the fact that there will be more game modes is pretty exciting. The progression system will make players want to give it a chance once again, explained Drew:

We’re hoping that this new update will remove some of that ‘i need time away from ladder’ feeling that a lot of players have!

Clan Wars 2.0 – “Big Plans For This”

As for what we should expect in the future, but not this update, it will be Clan Wars 2.0, according to another comment from Drew, explaining why they’re not adding Clan Wars 2.0 in this update:

Not this update, sorry! we have big plans for this and it didn’t make sense to do at the same time as a big 1v1 experience change.

Although the wait could be significant, knowing that the team wants to make Clan Wars 2.0 perfect and that they “have big plans for this” is great news.

Check back for more Clash Royale updates, which are bound to be announced the next week!

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Pokemon Go Summer Tour 2019 Has Already Scheduled Surprising Global Events

Pokemon Go fans will be glad to hear that the game has planned numerous real-world events. The Pokemon Go Summer Tour 2019 aims to build upon the success of the previous years. Last year, real-world Pokémon Go events managed to gather more than 3 million people. In just one day, the attendance for a single day event reached more than 100,000 persons. This year’s Pokemon Go Summer Tour is expected to gather even more players.

Pokemon Go reached about 460 million downloads, so far

“Last year’s Pokemon Go Summer Tour brought hundreds of thousands of Trainers together at real-world events around the world which left us with some truly unforgettable moments and stories. This summer, we’re looking to continue to build upon that success and create even more ways for Trainers to enjoy and interact with these incredible parks and cities and build lasting friendships throughout their journeys of encountering Pokémon in the ‘real-world,’” explained John Hanke, CEO of Niantic.

Hanke also explained that more than 190 million friend connections were made to date. More than that, the platform can support 100 million people at the same time. Hank concluded that the Pokemon Go game has around 460 million downloads at the moment.

Pokemon Go Summer Tour 2019 will come with big surprises

The Summer Tour prepared for this year will come with plenty of surprises. We already know that the Pokemon Go Fest: Chicago will take place from June 13th to June 16th. Also, Pokemon Go Fest: Dortmund, in Germany, will take place from July 4th to July 7th. Pokemon Go Summer Tour 2019 is even supposed to make a stop in Asia, although we do not have too many details at the moment.

This one is the third consecutive year when the tour stops in Chicago, and in 2019 the event will take place for four days instead of two. This year, the event will take place in Grant Park.

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Clash of Clans April Update: Hidden Changes Revealed

Eagle-eyed Clash of Clans players might have noticed some other changes in the game that were brought by the April update. Those that didn’t check out the new things introduced by the Supercell CoC developer team are going to be in for a treat! Today we will not talk about all the spring update changes and features (you can check them out here).

We will focus on several hidden and small changes that cannot be easily noticed.

Some 3D Heroes

We learned that the hero skins introduced with the Clash of Clans Season Challenges have also brought 3D Heroes so that the devs can easily develop many skins in the future. But at a closer look, you will see that some Heroes are not in 3D yet!

Notice the Grand Warden? Don’t worry; he’ll get a 3D look soon in a future update.

No More Naps!

Our Heroes would take a nap to regenerate the health. Now they’ve changed it into a different stance: they take the knee! Is it because we’re getting close to the Game of Thrones season? Maybe, maybe not. Nonetheless, I believe it’s a much more appropriate way to show that the hero is taking a break.

Tap on the Queen

If you tap on the Queen, she will wave at you! That’s cute…

The visual for the Barbarian King and Archer Queen will not change when you upgrade them anymore, because of the 3D model. This makes it a little difficult to differentiate their levels.

Dark Clouds

To activate this feature, you must go to Preferences -> More Setting – > Use Dark Clouds. The Cloud Fix (Operation Blue Skies) is scheduled for the first half of this year.

A New Rank: Clan War League

There’s a new tab with a rank – Clan War League, which will soon be added to the game.

League Medals Rewards limit was increased to 2.500.

Finally, to get more suggestions from the Builder Suggestions tab, scroll down and see what other upgrades you have available.

That would be all with the spring update for Clash of Clans.

If you haven’t updated the game yet, make sure you do it by using either Google Play or if you want the Clash of Clans APK file, head over to APK Mirror and look for Clash of Clans 11.446.15 APK file – which was uploaded on April 4 by Supercell.

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