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Minecraft’s diamond pickaxe would cost $6.7 billion

January 8, 2021 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

H&T calculate that a single ring would weigh 265lbs, and if it is solid gold would cost $7.7bn.

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: infographics, Minecraft

Incredibly detailed cyberpunk cityscape built in Minecraft

November 2, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Redditor Deltagon showed off their Minecraft design talents with an amazingly detailed and complex cyberpunk cityscape.

Filed Under: Art Tagged With: Cyberpunk, Minecraft

Missing Gen Con? Visit this incredible Minecraft reconstruction

July 31, 2020 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The entire Convention Center has been rebuilt in Minecraft, and you can take a look for yourself.

Filed Under: Sites Tagged With: gen con, gen con online, Minecraft

Microsoft has built a dungeon crawler out of Minecraft: Minecraft Dungeons

June 10, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Up to four players can go adventuring together in Minecraft Dungeons. Why? To save the village. This feels like a D&D dungeon crawl in the truest sense though there's no official word as to whether the quest begins in a tavern.

Filed Under: Console, PC Tagged With: e3, Minecraft, minecraft dungeons, trailers, xbox, xbox one

Impressive time-lapse shows a whole Minecraft city come to life

May 28, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

The action starts with a castle, soon grows to a port town and then the harbour expands into the sea.

Filed Under: PC Tagged With: Minecraft

Minecraft meets Ingress: Minecraft Earth

May 17, 2019 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

In Minecraft Earth walking down a sidewalk might be a walk through a diamond mine and a visit to the park might be race through skirmishing skeletons.

Filed Under: Mobile Tagged With: Augmented reality, Minecraft, minecraft earth

10 urban myths of gaming [infographic]

September 8, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

What computer game myths do you know? Are any of them believable? In fairness to the team at Liberty Games, who put this piece together, the Luigi’s Mansion myth is believable and it’s the sort of secret twist that’s in keeping with the company even if not the game franchise.…

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: fallout, infographics, luigi's mansion, Minecraft, nintendo, pokemon, street fighter, the legend of zelda

Building the Minecraft Cake

July 21, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

This is a damn fine looking cake. It’s the result of a request from a 9 year old brother. You can see below how it was built with chocolate brownies for the square layer, then smoothed over with chocolate butter cream and then given a marzipan layer.…

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cake, food, Minecraft

60 year old book Leia battles screen Princess Leia

April 19, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

At the start of March we discovered that Suvudu would run another Cage Match of science and fantasy. On one side we had book versions of characters and on the other screen versions of characters.…

Filed Under: Books Tagged With: Minecraft, princess leia, star wars, suvudu

3 impressive Minecraft cakes

February 23, 2014 by Andrew Girdwood 1 Comment

Gamer parents often mean gamer kids. What does it mean to have gamer kids? Increasingly it means Minecraft birthday cakes! This trio of Minecraft cake blocks should help inspire a new wave of baking this year.…

Filed Under: Geek Stuff Tagged With: cake, food, Minecraft

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