Minecraft to get a new more useful launcher for the 1.6 release

Ah Minecraft the massively popular sand box building/survival game from Mojang, it’s still going strong and still getting big updates too, next up is 1.6!
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Minecraft creator attacks Microsoft’s Windows 8 plan

“Got an email from Microsoft, wanting to help ‘certify’ minecraft for win 8. I told them to stop trying to ruin the PC as an open platform,” he wrote.”I’d rather have minecraft not run on win 8 at all than to play along. Maybe we can convince a few people not to switch to win 8 that way,” he added in the second message.
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Terasology, A Free And Open Source Minecraft Inspired Game Engine for Linux

Terasology (previously known as Blockmania) is a free and open source Minecraft inspired game engine involving procedural terrain generation and efficient rendering techniques in Java using the LWJGL. The engine uses a block-based voxel-like approach seen in Minecraft. Terasology developers are now working on a full game incorporating elements from Dwarf Fortress and Dungeon Keeper.
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