Minecraft is a vast and brilliant sandbox game where everything is made of either blocks, or murderous monsters. Incredibly popular on the PC, Minecraft has recently come to consoles in the form of an Xbox LIVE Arcade title. Check out this thorough review of the game in its new consolized skin. California Literary Review has the story.
Minecraft is a great game on the computer, but finding people to play with can be a chore. Servers don’t grow on pixel trees, after all. Xbox fixes that problem rather effectively with its LIVE service. If you’ve never experienced the raw joy of shoving your friends into a pit full of creepers, now would be a good time to grab Minecraft and make it happen.