The guys at Mojang have produced a taster preview of the upcoming Minecraft 1.8 Adventure patch for Minecraft

You can see the video below 😀

http://youtu.be/tYoO9XkCCHg

Enjoy

In the middle part of last year, Riot Games brought their popular MOBA League of Legends to Apple's Mac platform in a beta release. Unfortunately, that beta didn't go as well as Riot was hoping. Riot was passionate about making sure that League of Legends on Mac was 100% up to 'Riot standards', ensuring that Mac players would have a flawless playing experience.

What ended up happening, however, was not up to those standards and Riot has announced that they will be cancelling the Mac beta client of League of Legends.

In their official announcement, Riot Games said:

"At the heart of the issue is our rapid update cycle, where we make regular balance changes and content updates. We currently develop on the PC, but since the plan was for the Mac to share servers, we believed that a Mac version that was frequently unavailable was not up to Riot standards. For that reason we have severely limited the number of participants in Mac testing.

We are regretfully going to shut down the Mac Beta client indefinitely starting 12:00 AM PT on September 6, 2011. We realize our current approach regarding the Mac platform won't guarantee the quality and frequent updates we deliver today on the PC and are expected by our player community. We will continue to investigate the opportunity to provide player access on the Mac Platform in the future that aligns with our service and content update standards. We are committed to building a solution that will work on the Mac in the long run, but it will take some time."

To read the full statement, head over to the official Riot post, which requires a League of Legends account to read. If you don't have an account, you can view the post at this Reddit thread instead.

Source: The Register

Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine’s launch is fast approaching, coming out on the 6th and 9th of this month for North America and Europe respectively. While we already knew that the game would be shipping with a multiplayer component, that deal is getting even sweeter with a co-op mode coming shortly after as free DLC. If you’ve ever wanted to sash your way through an Ork horde with a buddy – and really, who hasn’t? – you’re going to get that chance.

This upcoming DLC, which will come in “early October,” will be going under the name of “Exterminatus,” which seems straight forward enough, in a Latin-sort-of-way. Included in this release will be two scenarios that are designed to let four players romp around, unleashing gleeful destruction upon their hapless foes. Additionally, there will be global leaderboards and “posing ‘dynamic challenges’ to players and supporting additional ‘score modifiers.’”

This mode comes in addition to the already included 8v8 multiplayer mode that allows players to battle as either Space Marines or Chaos Space Marines in a variety of game modes, including a team death match mode, and a capture point mode.

Late Wednesday evening, new information about Star Trek Online came to light during a Q&A session between investors and Perfect World Entertainment’s CEO and CFO.  While fielding questions about the acquisition of Cryptic Studios by PWE, it was revealed that “Cryptic is working on the free-to-play model for Star Trek Online. This is going to be launched by the end of this year as well. So I think free-to-play model we have a bigger potential in US market and also in China market.”

Honestly, this information isn’t completely unexpected. It’s definitely something that a lot of players and fans of the property have been clammoring about for a long time. Add to the mix that Champions Online: Free for All version appears to be doing very well and PWE’s commitment to F2P titles, it appears that we have the recipe for the announcement.

There is no question that this is a smart move by PWE on behalf of Star Trek Online. By all reports out of Champions Online, the in-game store is not a “pay to win” type of store and truly does contain fluffy vanity items rather than overpowered weapons, etc. If PWE and Cryptic have learned anything from Champions’ transformation into a F2P game, let’s hope it’s this one.

A sticky issue for PWE is going to be the fact that STO has run on a “sort of” item mall model from its inception. While the game charged a monthly fee, players who wanted to, for instance, play other races had to unlock them using the Cryptic Store. The new model is going to have to address some of that when it reemerges as a F2P game. Devs are going to have to ask themselves which things will stay in the store as vanity and which will have to be released wholesale as something required to “win” at the game. Without adequate answers, the idea of pay to win might have some merit.

Fans of the game and those who love the IP will want to watch the transformation of STO as the months roll on. We can certainly hope that the development team will be expanded as (hopefully) revenue rolls in. More devs = more content which is always a good thing.

So what are your thoughts about the F2P Star Trek Online? Is this a good or a bad thing? What about the announcement pleases you and what worries you? Let us know!