Minecraft: Story Mode announced

Telltale Games and Mojang has announced Minecraft: Story Mode, coming to Xbox 360 and Xbox One next year. It will be an choice-driven episodic game, just like Telltale’s current Game of Thrones and Tales from the Borderlands series. Yeah, we don’t believe it either.

Minecraft: Story Mode will see Telltale do the seemingly impossible: bring a narrative-driven experience to Mojang’s open-world, open-ended sandbox. Taking place in the familiar blocky world of Minecraft, the series will introduce new characters and story while retaining the core themes of the original. Telltale will be collaborating with Mojang as well as the Minecraft community to make the game as authentic as possible. The game will be a standalone product, so you won’t need the core Minecraft game to enjoy this new adventure.

Interestingly enough, this game was announced in the wake of a recently-rejected script for the Minecraft film. Minecraft: Story Mode may be a big risk, but if anyone’s going to get a story right, it’s going to be Telltale. Keep an eye out for more on this game in 2015.