Monthly Archive: November 2011

Minecraft RC2 Is Out

Minecraft RC2

Minecraft’s Release Candidate 2 is now available for download. It’s not the official release, rather a candidate for release for us to debug and find some places for improvement before they release it in a few days.

If you’re interested in the game – go ahead and buy it now to save $10. The price is going up to $28 USD.

Here’s the RC2 Changelist:

Changelist (will be updated):

  • Wooden doors, trapdoors now work correctly.
  • New sfx (also included in 1.8.1):
    • Enderman sounds
    • New hurt/death sounds for the player
    • New “hit” sounds
    • New explosion sounds
    • New item pickup sounds
    • New “toolbreak” sounds
    • New eating sounds
    • New arrow sounds
    • New blaze sounds
    • New XP pickup sounds
  • Quit game button!
  • Eggs spawn chicks instead of chickens. i.imgur.com/BSsKh.png
  • New “toolbreak” particle effect.
  • Bows have durability. i.imgur.com/YYgoI.png
  • Weapon bug from RC1 is fixed.
  • Shading on blocks in inventory! i.imgur.com/BRUAC.png

If you want the client, grab it here: http://assets.minecraft.net/rc2/minecraft.jar
If you want the server, grab it here: http://assets.minecraft.net/rc2/minecraft_server.jar

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Skyrim Now Available

Skyrim Out

The latest Elder Scrolls game, Skyrim, is now available. So run out to your local Best Buy or grab it on Steam! We’ll have updates and some insight into the gameplay, animations, glitches, etc etc later on this month. Leave us some feedback and let us know what you think of it!

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