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Minecraft: Dungeons is dungeon-crawling done Minecraft-style

Saturday's MineCon Earth livestream revealed that Mojang is branching Minecraft out into another new genre.
Ozzie Mejia
Ozzie Mejia
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Saturday morning's MineCon Earth livestream was home to a full-blown celebration of all things Minecraft. But while the main focus was Mojang's game-changing world-builder, the Swedish developer announced a new game set in their universe that will take Minecraft into a whole new genre. That game is Minecraft: Dungeons.

Minecraft: Dungeons is a dungeon crawler, inspired by many of the genre's best games. It will take place in the Minecraft universe, with the full blocky Minecraft aesthetic on display. Players will explore a Minecraft world that spans across many of the original game's familiar biomes, taking on creatures from throughout the Minecraft mythos as they look to face the evil Arch-Illager. The game will support four-player co-op, with traditional RPG roles heavily implied.

Minecraft: Dungeons represents the latest step from Mojang to branch Minecraft off into a new genre, with the most recent example being Minecraft: Story Mode. While that was developed by the soon-to-be-defunct Telltale Games, a small team at Mojang is undertaking this latest project in-house. The developer is estimating a 2019 release for Minecraft: Dungeons on PC. For more information, visit the Minecraft website.

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?

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