Minecraft Dungeons launcher shuts down as Unified Launcher rolls out
Ewdison Then - Jan 19, 2021, 9:54pm CST
Minecraft has grown considerably from its humble voxel beginnings and has branched out into different platforms and even genres. Some, like the Minecraft Earth AR game, didn’t really take off but others like the hack-and-slash Minecraft Dungeons have stuck around so far. Mojang, under the auspices of Microsoft, has been trying to consolidate all of these under a single roof and one of its latest is to move Dungeons players to a new, unified Minecraft launcher.
Minecraft Dungeons naturally launched last year as a somewhat separate entity from Minecraft. After all, the two only shared a similar theme but may not even share the same user accounts. As Mojang starts to move Minecraft to a single Microsoft account, it might have made sense to also move Minecraft Dungeons to a single launcher as well.
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Minecraft Earth to shut down in June 2021 as current global situation limits free movement and collaborative play
Minecraft Earth will get a final update which Mojang says has been designed to make the game as fun as possible for players.
Jan 11, 2021 13:36:24 IST
Minecraft Earth is shutting down in June 2021. The announcement has been made by Mojan, developer of the game, merely two years after the launch of the AR mobile game. In a blogpost, Mojang said that the ongoing global situation has prevented free movement and collaborative play – two things that are pivotal for playing
Minecraft Earth. As a result, we have made the difficult decision to re-allocate our resources to other areas that provide value to the Minecraft community, the game developer said.
In the first recap column of the year, we take a gander at the sunsetting of Minecraft Earth, the Sun Valley UI overhaul for Windows 10, and much more. Be sure to catch up via our handy overview.