Developer Mojang and its parent company Microsoft have recently started to branch out into spin-offs, like the Diablo-lite Minecraft Dungeons and the augmented reality game Minecraft Earth.

The Education Edition of Minecraft will be getting a series of worlds inspired by BBC Earth’s Frozen Planet 2 program, with the first becoming available on September 21.

And that’s happening, even after the popular augmented reality game made an impressive debut. It fetched over 1 million users in the U.S. alone within a week of its November 2019 launch.

Microsoft Corp. has announced that Minecraft Earth, an augmented reality (AR) game based on the original building-block game, will shut down in June 2021. According to Microsoft’s statement posted ...

Microsoft Corp. announced Tuesday that its augmented reality game “Minecraft Earth,” a game based on the popular building-block game by Mojang Studios, will shut down in June. According to the ...

Microsoft has this week announced it will be shutting down the augmented reality version of it Minecraft Earth game later this year, removing support during June 2021. The announcement was posted ...

Microsoft says it is shutting down augmented reality game "Minecraft Earth" in June 2021 due to the restricted movement and lack of social mingling brought about by the global health crisis. First ...

Minecraft Earth will be shuttered later this year. Microsoft's augmented reality game for Android and iOS, Minecraft Earth, is shutting down on June 30.

This week the augmented reality game Minecraft Earth was announced as headed for the graveyard. On June 30, 2021, the game will officially end support, and no more Minecraft blocks will appear in ...

As a result, Minecraft Earth will be turned off in June. “On June 30, we will discontinue all content and service support for the game,” Microsoft said in a blog post.

Both games espouse outdoor play as their core mechanic, all centered in augmented reality. In Minecraft Earth, the premise was to travel around, mine "tappable" blocks, and make creations on a 3D ...