Mojang’s Minecraft Dungeons has seen some setbacks because of the Covid-19 pandemic, pushing again its launch. It’s not an enormous delay: the launch is now on May 26th, when beforehand they’d mentioned Minecraft action-RPG spin-off could be out by the top of April. And now you’ve a agency date.
“As you all know, we initially planned to release Minecraft Dungeons by the end of April. However, due to the current state of the world, this was no longer possible, as we wanted to guarantee the health and safety of our teams, and empower them to deliver the best possible experience to you, our players,” the developers said. “We hope you’ll find it was worth the wait.”
Dungeons is a standalone game set within the Minecraft universe, the place you and as much as 4 mates go monster and treasure searching via procedurally generated blocky worlds. It’s very not like your typical game of Minecraft, primarily as a result of you’ll be able to’t really construct something. It appears a bit extra like Diablo, you recognize, if everybody in Diablo was extra cube-like and fewer scary-looking.
Minecraft Dungeons comes out on May 26th on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10. It’ll value you £16.74 for the common model, and also will be out there on Xbox Game Pass For PC at launch.
Normal Minecraft is popping out to be a reasonably good useful resource throughout these unusual occasions. Microsoft have made a bunch of lessons from Minecraft’s Education Edition free to assist out with homeschooling. Some kids are even using the game to hold their graduation ceremonies that they might’ve missed out on due to the lockdown.
Minecraft Dungeons isn’t the one delay we’ve seen due to the pandemic, nevertheless – simply final week Bethesda pushed back the Fallout 76 Wastelanders update. Other games and builders have been affected, too, and yow will discover out extra about these over here.