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Minecraft players may have been surprised when they logged on today and were prompted with an unexpected update. The new update 4J Studios has rolled out provides fixes for bugs that have appeared after the 1.7.3 update. Many of the fixes involve pistons, as well as some visual and audio oddities players have been experiencing. Keep reading for the entire list of fixes that will make Minecraft even better.

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Props to XMaloX for recreating our logo in-game

Each Monday for the foreseeable future, we will be showcasing a community member’s Minecraft world. If you are interested in being featured, please email Shawn@xblafans.com. …
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Props to XMaloX for recreating our logo in-game

Each Monday for the foreseeable future, we will be showcasing a community member’s Minecraft world. If you are interested in being featured, please email Shawn@xblafans.com. …
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Minecraft‘s first skin pack dropped on Monday, allowing players to ditch their Steve persona and choose from 45 new costumes. While all their names have been announced, only a …
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Although many Minecraft players are enjoying today’s piston-filled update, they’re still wearing those old Steve-centric rags. That will all change Monday, July 16 when Skin Pack 1 drops with this season’s hottest fashions. While some of the new skins have been trickling out over the past week, the full list has finally been revealed. The pack will include skins from popular XBLA games such as Trials Evolution, Fable: Heroes, Banjo-Kazooie, and Splosion Man. Check out the list after the jump.

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The Minecraft skin parade — no, not that kind of skin parade, get your mind out of the gutter! — continued today with Major Nelson announcing that the …
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This Sunday night our guide coordinator will be back at it again, this time streaming Minecraft. We could’ve had some glorious world for you to see, or some cool game …
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Minecraft will be getting its first Skin Pack along with the release of the 1.7.3 update. The pack will have a total of 40 skins, the majority of which are currently shrouded in mystery. Five more skins have emerged from the fog, bravely showing themselves to the world in all their pixelated glory. The five newest character to join the pack are: Jack of Blades, Clayton Carmine, Banjo, Ms Splosion Man, and a Prisoner. There are still 30 character to be announced, but so far the pack looks amazing. We can’t wait to see more XBLA character getting the Minecraft treatment. There is currently no release date or price for Skin Pack 1.

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Microsoft and 4J Studios bringing Mojang’s world-building simulator, Minecraft, over to Xbox Live Arcade was a big deal when it was announced and was promoted as such by grabbing some of the spotlight during Microsoft’s pre-E3 2011 media briefing. As such, it stands to reason that the console holder and the Swedish studio behind the original version of the game hammered out a deal months ahead of time before carefully fine-tuning the specifics of its E3 announcement. Sure, that’s reasonable all right, but that’s not the way it happened, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Studios Phil Spencer recently informed Destructoid.

“So I have a funny ‘behind the curtains’ story on Minecraft,” Spencer explained. “It was about a week before E3 last year when we made that deal as a first party. I believed in the project and we knew the studio. The graphic behind me last year on stage — if you were like, ‘What is that?’ it’s because it was created in one night. Even the people inside Microsoft, as they were looking at it, were thinking, ‘What is that Minecraft thing and why are we putting it on stage?'”

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The ever popular Minecraft is still storming the charts on Xbox Live and Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition remains for the second week in a row, the number 2 most …
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