Cliff Notes – How to download Minecraft if you’ve seen the movie
- The Minecraft movie, despite its poor reviews, has attracted significant audiences, indicating the franchise’s ongoing popularity.
- For those interested in playing Minecraft on PC, it is available for download directly from the Microsoft website, as it is not listed on Steam.
- A free trial of Minecraft can be accessed through the Microsoft website, allowing new players to experience the game before committing to a purchase.
Games Inbox: How to download Minecraft if you’ve seen the movie
Minecraft is bigger than ever. The Friday letters page is concerned that the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct is aging like milk, as one reader fears the summer showcases will be a disappointment.
Console to PC
Just to break up the Nintendo Switch 2 discussions for a moment but I recently saw the Minecraft movie with my kids and… it definitely is a movie called Minecraft. It’s rubbish, of course, but then so was Super Mario Bros., so no matter how good Fallout and The Last Of Us might be on TV it doesn’t seem that video game movies will ever get good.
They are definitely making a ton of money though, as my cinema was absolutely chocka, with overexcited teens, younger kids, and a lot of bemused parents. I feel there’s nothing I can usefully say about the movie, it’s exactly what you’d expect and most of it washed over me so quickly I can barely remember it now. Although I did like that Jack Black was barely taking his roles seriously, which helped me endure it.
I went with my cousin and his kids, and I noticed that they quickly got into a fight with mine as to where and how they play the game, with my kids being ribbed for playing it on Switch and the others insisting it was better on PC. What I didn’t realise though, on investigating at home, is that it’s not actually on Steam, which I guess explains why it never shows up on those charts.
If it did, would it be the number one game? I’ve got to assume it probably would. Anyway, for anyone else that didn’t know that you can get a free trial from the Microsoft website here. It looks like my kids are going to switch to playing the PC version now. A sign of the times in general, I think.
Hammeriron
Dance of the seven veils
It really does feel like the Switch 2 is unravelling before our eyes. It’s over a week now and we still don’t know the price of half the games or the upgrades. Well, some countries seem to know the upgrade prices, and Welcome Tour, but rather than being cautious about America it seems it’s Europe that Nintendo is leaving to stew.
Why do we still not know the prices? What are they waiting for? Why are they so intent on leaving excited fans confused and frustrated? This business over the Switch 2 Edition games is the worst, with everyone seemingly having a different story and Nintendo refusing to just say definitively what’s going on.
And now we find out, also over a week later, that you’re expected to pay for the DLC for Zelda: Breath Of The Wild separately, even though it’s already £67? Why is this information only now leaking out? Do they actively want a steady stream of bad news? Is Sony in charge of their marketing?
Rolo
Ready and waiting
Let’s be realistic, if Nintendo were going to delay the Switch 2 Direct due to uncertainty of tariffs it wouldn’t be by a day or a week, it would be indefinitely.
American import tariffs are going to be a mess for a long time and with a 90 day pause announcement for everywhere but China it now looks like Americans could be waiting three to six months before any final agreements are made and it can actually go on sale over there.
Tim
GC: There’s no delay to the Switch 2’s launch in the US or anywhere else. Nintendo has already delivered plenty of stock there, before the tariffs.
Third party prices
The problem I have with all this Switch 2 price confusion is that I don’t think we’ve heard anything about third party prices yet. Who is going to buy the two-year-old Elden Ring on Switch 2 if it costs £70 but can be picked up for a third of that on other consoles and PC?
The smartass answer is people that have only owned a Switch but are there really that many people that are in that position and would also be interested in buying big, complex triple-A games like Elden Ring and Final Fantasy 7 Remake? I have my doubts, and I also doubt this will be anything but more bad news for Nintendo if every low effort port on the Switch is being charged at £60+.
Gadfly
Slab of electronics
I don’t like these kind of arguments to drag but I just have to say that the European Mega Drive is the best looking console ever made. Do you mean to tell me the PC Engine is better looking than that? Would you just take time to behold the black beauty? It even had an earphone jack and a volume knob that made you feel like a DJ.
It was even better looking than the Japanese one. Was the European Mega Drive designed in Europe? How could the Japanese allow it to be better looking than theirs? Anyway, happy I’ve made my statement. In parting, GC, could you give me your top five best looking consoles, not handhelds, of all time? See ya.
Henry
GC: As we said, our favourites are the PC Engine, Japanese/European SNES, and PS one. So maybe the Neo-Geo and Mega Drive I as well. Or perhaps the Wii and Xbox One S… there are too many consoles that are just a black slab.
The Japanese Mega Drive had red highlights (Credits: Evan Amos Vanamo Media)
Quiet summer
Bit disappointing that Microsoft is already prepping what seems to be an underwhelming summer showcase. If The Outer Worlds 2 is what they’re going to spend the most time on… I don’t know how excited most people are going to be about that.
I do think they have a good line-up though, with Fable, Gears Of War: E-Day, Perfect Dark, Ninja Gaiden 4, and Clockwork Revolution. I don’t know if any of them are big sellers – maybe Fable and Gears – but I’d say it’s a more varied line-up than they usually have, which is definitely a good thing.
I assume they’ll have a couple of new reveals too, so maybe the new Halo remake and whatever Double Fine has been working on? I’m cautiously optimistic but if Sony is not sure whether it’s going to even have a proper showcase I’m not really feeling this year is going to be blowing me away with new reveals.
I had hoped that Nintendo would make up for the quietness on the other side of the fence, but I wasn’t all that impressed by the Direct and I definitely expected more games to be announced. The only new IP I remember is that wheelchair basketball game, that looked like a cheapo indie game.
Casper
Console get!
Just to say I beat Nintendo’s pre-order system in the end. I had to continually ask for the verification code 12 to 15 times, then they eventually all popped up in a row with the last one finally working. It wasn’t easy!
I hope the console is worth it. Mario Kart World, Donkey Kong Bananza, and Metroid do all look great. Now I just have to finish my current game Sekiro in time, let’s hope it’s not too hard…
Ryan O’D
The litmus test
Someone was saying just the other day that it seems like a long time to have not heard anything about Devil May Cry 6 and now I read that there’s a Netflix show that’s doing really well (I had never heard of it till now).
I’ll never watch it but if that means more money for Capcom, on top of the windfall they’re getting from Monster Hunter Wilds, then I am all for it. The new Onimusha is the first sign that they’re going to spend their money on crazy projects that they probably know won’t make much money but what they heck, they want to do it.
For me this is the sign of a great publisher. It’s something you see Nintendo and Square Enix doing but never EA or Activision. Activision in particular is the exact opposite, because they’ve stopped making any games at all other than Call Of Duty.
I’d cautiously add Microsoft to his list too, to be fair, although I’m not sure what they really expect of some of their games. Did they know South Of Midnight was going to do absolutely no business before they released it? They should have but did they also expect it to review well? I think they probably did. Nobody believes Xbox hype more eagerly than Microsoft.
With all the talk of AI lately we’re in real danger of the art being taking out of video games completely, at least for non-indie games. The test I would say, is when a company is willing to make something because they want to and not just because they think it will sell loads.
Bruff
Inbox also-rans
I don’t know what’s crazier about that Pokémon card story. The idea that a trading card saved a man’s life or that in America someone shooting through the wall of your house is only barely enough to wake you up.
Tolly
If they ever do release a Titanfall 3 I hope it comes out the same week as Half-Life 3, because that would probably destroy reality itself. I feel like I’ve been hearing about these no-show sequels for longer than I’ve been playing video games.
MrTranzor