4J Studios Working on Kinect Version of Minecraft

As Minecraft approaches ever closer to its official "launch date" this November, the universe itself continues to expand to various other platforms. Most recently Microsoft announced at E3 that a Kinect-enabled version would be making its way to the Xbox 360.

Well we now have some more information about that, Markus "Notch" Perrson creator of Minecraft revealed last night via his Twitter account that 4J Studios will be handling the 360 port of the gaming phenomenon. For those unfamiliar with 4J, they've worked with Microsoft before, they're the ones who ported Perfect Dark, and the two Banjo-Kazooie games to the Xbox Live Arcade. They also ported The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to the PS3.

Minecraft is also going mobile this year, though that will be handled by an in-house team. It'll show up on Android first (Sony's Xperia Play) and iOS devices after that. This is all of course in addition to constant updates being made to the main game itself in preperation for it moving out of beta and into final.

Angry Birds Launches on Android (for free)

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. As someone who traded in their iPhone for an Android back in March earlier this year, one of the things I miss is the quantity of high quality games that Apple has out there. Sad to say when it comes to gaming on ones phone Android kind of blows. But that is slowly (very slowly) changing, after being in beta for about a month or so the full version of the insanely addictive iPhone game "Angry Birds" is now available to all Android users. The best part though, it's free, now of course as one would expect this means that it is ad supported but if that bugs you then you'll be able to get rid of the ad's for a fee in a future update.

Rovio made a strange choice in how to get the full version released, rather than use the Android market they released it on the app store GetJar, which I'll admit I hadn't heard about until this morning. I was lucky enough to download it before things got hectic, just a few minutes ago a friend tried to download it and the GetJar site is completely down, so you may have to wait a while to actually download it.

To say that Angry Birds is a great game is an understatement, you will be up late at night trying to get three stars on every pig smashing level. And I am equally as happy to announce that the game translates perfectly to Android devices, the real point of this whole post is that if you have an Android (or iPhone) then you have absolutely no reason not to download this game.