Minecraft also remains the most popular game on YouTube, with Minecraft-related content responsible for around 100 billion views on the video platform. Last May, Minecraft celebrated its 10th birthday and Microsoft took the opportunity to announce that the game had sold 176 million copies to date – possibly making it the best-selling game of all time, beating out the last Grand Theft Auto by around 60 million copies.Īt the same time, a new Minecraft game was also announced – a Pokemon Go-esque augmented reality version called Minecraft Earth which will see players working together to build things out in the real world. Feel free to pass this along.” Is Minecraft likely to end any time soon?īy all available signs, Minecraft is nowhere near death’s door. No need to play future updates ever again, when you can simply endlessly relive the glorious. However, Microsoft’s community manager took to Twitter on Thrsday 2 January to clear things up: “Hey folks, I can confirm that Minecraft servers are NOT shutting down in 2020. Sweet Home 3D application may run on Windows, Mac OS X 10. The tale then got picked up by a few legitimate news outlets who didn’t realise it was bogus, instigating a brief panic across the Minecraft-verse. There were reports across the world that the end is nigh for Minecraft and that the rest of the game will soon be following Story Mode into the abyss.Īs it turns out, these stories originated with prank website Channel45News.
