Developer Mojang has unveiled modifications to Minecraft’s content material launch schedule that’ll see the blockbusting sandbox journey commerce its conventional single summer time replace for a number of content material drops all year long. And that is on high of plans for a local PS5 launch and extra.
In a weblog put up outlining the way forward for Minecraft’s growth, Mojang mentioned its new launch mannequin is designed to satisfying gamers’ needs for “new Minecraft content material extra typically”, and can see content material drops of various sizes releasing “extra steadily” every year. It additionally revealed it has been trialing the method for some time, pointing to a December 2023 replace that turned pots into practical storage containers and made visible modifications to bats, in addition to this April’s Armored Paws replace, which launched armadillos, wolf variations, and wolf armour.
Alongside extra common content material releases for Minecraft, Mojang mentioned it has been specializing in “long-term initiatives to make sure we will proceed to evolve [the game] lengthy into the long run”. And that is alongside affirmation a local PS5 launch for Minecraft is on the best way. There is not any phrase on when this may arrive, however the studio added it plans to discover methods to enhance Minecraft’s multiplayer expertise over the approaching yr, making it simpler to search out and join with mates.
One thing else set to obtain a little bit of a shake-up is Minecraft Stay – Mojang’s livestream celebration of Minecraft. That is shifting from an annual occasion to a twice-yearly stream, with each reveals detailing “the newest options we’re engaged on, what’s coming into testing, and the most recent information from throughout the Minecraft franchise”. Mojang can also be retiring Minecraft Stay’s more and more controversial mob vote.
“We’re excited for a way forward for Minecraft during which we get to share extra options with you extra usually,” the studio concluded, “and during which your strategies proceed to develop into a actuality. We hope you may be a part of us for one more fifteen years – and hopefully, much more.”
In different information, Warner Bros. Footage not too long ago shared a primary – and never particularly promising – have a look at its live-action film adaptation of Minecraft, on account of arrive in cinemas on 4th April subsequent yr.
