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MineCraft Minecraft awarded GameCity videogame arts prize

Discussion in 'Gaming' started by CinVin, Oct 29, 2011.

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    Minecraft is the winner of a new arts award for computer games.

    The prize was announced at the finale of the GameCity videogame culture festival in Nottingham.

    The title is the work of an independent Swedish company, Mojang. Players have to build objects out of blocks in an open environment.

    The game was selected over rivals from big name publishers, including Valve and Electronic Arts' Portal 2 and Microsoft's Ilomilo.

    "It's a great honour to be compared to those games," said Markus Persson, Mojang's founder.

    "Winning this award helps us to try to make Minecraft the best game it can be."

    Nearly four million people have already bought the title online, despite the fact it is still in beta. It is scheduled for a formal release next month.

    "It just wasn't like anything else... it felt like it had an expanding life of its own. It had an organic nature," one of the judges, Ed Hall, told the BBC.

    (Full Story at BBC News)
    CinVin, Oct 29, 2011
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