Minecraft: Wii U Edition – Battle Mini Game footage
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Footage has come in of the new Battle Mini Game added to Minecraft: Wii U Edition today. Get a look at it below.
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Minecraft: Wii U Edition – Battle Mini Game and new update out now
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Minecraft: Wii U Edition’s Battle Mini Game is out now. On top of that, a new update has been made available. The full patch notes can be found below.
As a side note, players should be aware of some issues surrounding the new Battle Mini Game – specifically joining public Battle Mini Games. 4J Studios put up a note on Twitter earlier today saying they’re working with Nintendo on the problem.
There is a problem joining public Battle Mini Games on #MinecraftWiiU at the moment. We're working on this with Nintendo.
— 4J Studios (@4JStudios) June 21, 2016
Minecraft: Wii U Edition maintenance planned for next week
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Minecraft: Wii U Edition will be undergoing maintenance as we head into next week. The game’s online services will be impacted for a little under two hours.
Here’s when the maintenance is scheduled for:
– 8:50 PM PT – 10:30 PM PT
– 11:50 PM ET – 1:30 AM ET
– 4:50 AM in the UK – 6:30 AM in the UK
– 5:50 AM in Europe – 7:30 AM in Europe
Minecraft: Wii U Edition – Battle Mini Game launches June 21, trailer
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The previously-announced Battle Mini Game in Minecraft: Wii U Edition now has a release date. Today, it’s confirmed that the content will be available for free on June 21.
A new trailer has accompanied today’s announcement. That can be found below.
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European Minecraft: Wii U Edition boxart
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Nintendo confirmed yesterday that Minecraft: Wii U Edition will have a physical version in Europe later this month just like North America and Japan. The boxart is now available – see above.
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Minecraft: Wii U Edition’s physical version out in Europe on June 30
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Just like in North America and Japan, Europe will also be getting Minecraft: Wii U Edition at retail. Nintendo shared a date of June 30 on its Twitter page.
The message reads:
Minecraft: #WiiU Edition comes to stores on 30/06 and includes the Super Mario Mash-Up Pack on the disc! pic.twitter.com/DJYLjrF9Zq
— Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) June 1, 2016
Minecraft: Wii U Edition is coming to retail in North America on June 17. The Japanese version is set for June 23.
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New Minecraft: Wii U Edition update out now
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Minecraft: Wii U Edition has received a new update. It’s unclear what exactly it entails, but we do know that it takes up 143MB of free space. We’ll let you know if we receive any patch notes.
Footage of Minecraft’s new Battle mini-game
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Courtesy of IGN, we have new footage of the Battle mini-game that will be distributed for free in the console versions of Minecraft. Here’s the gameplay:
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Minecraft: Wii U Edition adding new “Battle” mini-game next month
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Next month, all Minecraft users on consoles will have access to a new mini-game: “Battle”. The free DLC has players battling it out against each other in a deathmatch, and comes as the first of various mini-games on the way.
Here’s an official overview:
Battle pits players against one another in a fight for survival, as they race to snatch weapons and resources from chests, dance over each arena’s unique perils and stave off hunger pangs. We’ve made the mini game specifically with console players and couch-based competition in mind: it supports up to four players in splitscreen and eight players online, either by invitation or using the in-game matchmaking system. We wanted it to be super-accessible and fast-paced, so we’ve tried to keep the focus on rapid tactical thinking and combat: there’s no need to craft anything here, and you can loot inventories and equip armour with the tap of a button.
Battle will be added to Minecraft sometime next month. Additional maps will be available in the future for $2.99 each.
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Minecraft devs led the way on the new Mario collaboration for Wii U
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One of the bigger releases this week was the new Super Mario Mash-Up Pack in Minecraft: Wii U Edition. Damon Baker, senior manager of licensing at Nintendo, told The Verge that developers Mojang and 4J mostly came up with the idea for the collaboration. It began just as a way to introduce new skins, but the teams wanted to come up with something more.
Baker stated:
“They actually came to us with what their vision was, and the extent of it, and blew us away. It still went through an official approval process through our art department at our head office in Japan, but it was really driven by them as the creative studios behind it.”
Baker also said that the company has no plans to expand the Mario content beyond its own hardware for now, which one would expect. He said: “We’ve just been concentrating on Wii U first and foremost.”
