{"id":78174,"date":"2015-07-06T14:44:44","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=78174"},"modified":"2015-07-06T14:50:38","modified_gmt":"2015-07-06T12:50:38","slug":"windows-10-comes-with-its-own-version-of-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/78174-windows-10-comes-with-its-own-version-of-minecraft","title":{"rendered":"Windows 10 comes with its own version of Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minecon 2015 has been happening today and news has been dominated by\u00a0<em>Minecraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>We have now learned that when Windows 10 launches at the end of July, it will be bundled with its own version\u00a0of <em>Minecraft<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Known as <em>Minecraft: Windows Edition<\/em>, this version is currently\u00a0still in beta.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of the <em>Minecraft<\/em>\u00a0on PC will have free access to this version. Everyone else will have to pay $10.<\/p>\n<p>The game has the\u00a0exact same mechanics as the previous version,\u00a0along with the creative and survival game modes as expected.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing\u00a0really appears to have changed with this version.\u00a0With the exception that\u00a0controller users can\u00a0switch between mouse\/keyboard and a gamepad.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, there is an\u00a0Xbox app integration that allows you take\u00a0screenshots, or record gameplay footage with the Game DVR feature.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft promises that they will be making changes\u00a0based on player feedback.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment, whether this new version of\u00a0<em>Minecraft<\/em>\u00a0will break mod compatibility, or whether\u00a0Windows Edition players will be able to join the same servers as regular version players, is an unknown.<\/p>\n<p>We should expect a full announcement from Mojang very soon.<\/p>\n<h4>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kitguru.net\/gaming\/operating-systems\/matthew-wilson\/windows-10-will-launch-with-its-own-version-of-minecraft\/\" target=\"_blank\">KitGuru<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More Microsoft\u00a0News<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/77354-microsofts-e3-2015-press-conference-highlights.html\">Microsoft\u2019s E3 2015 Press Conference Highlights<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/77732-microsoft-release-these-games-to-xbox-one-first.html\">Microsoft: release these games to Xbox One<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/77918-microsoft-sets-its-sights-on-amd.html\">Microsoft sets its sights on AMD<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More Minecraft goodness for everyone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":78176,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,333,14640,879,1969,13009],"class_list":["post-78174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-microsoft","tag-minecraft","tag-minecraft-windows-edition","tag-mojang","tag-news-2","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}