Minecraft: Celebs Rumors

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Rachel Seo editor If the present and future of entertainment are online, and the power struggle over the internet rests on who owns the largest market share of the attention economy, then content creators Dream, 23, and GeorgeNotFound, 25, share a big piece of the pie. Boasting 31 million YouTube subscribers, 6.8 million TikTok followers, 6.2 million Twitch followers, 5.7 million Twitter followers (not to mention 2 million on his alternate Twitter account) and 3.3 million Instagram followers, Dream has the ability to make a topic trend with a single tweet. George, his best friend and close collaborator, has accrued 10.5 million YouTube subscribers, 9.1 million TikTok followers, 4.9 million Twitch followers, 3.9 million Twitter followers (3.2 million on his alt) and 3 million Instagram followers.

The popular YouTube star known as Dream has finally revealed his face and his real name to the world after years of being anonymous!

Most parents out there will know about Minecraft, the popular game that their children are likely obsessed with. One lucky child had his dream come true when he came home after the summer holidays to discover his room had been transformed into a Minecraft paradise.

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNot everyone is jumping on the NFT bandwagon.Minecraft, the open-world game platform owned by Microsoft, has notified players that “integrations of NFTs with Minecraft are generally not something we will support or allow.”In the July 20 notice, the game’s developer, Mojang, said it has rules in place to ensure that Minecraft “remains a community where everyone has access to the same content. NFTs, however, can create models of scarcity and exclusion that conflict with our guidelines and the spirit of Minecraft.”Nonfungible tokens (NFTs) provide unique identifiers, which are part of a blockchain, that can authenticate the ownership of any form of digital asset (enabling markets for trading or selling those).

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The YouTube star known as Technoblade has tragically lost his fight against cancer.

Technoblade, a YouTube creator and Minecraft gamer with nearly 11 million subscribers, has died of cancer, his parents announced in a video posted on their son’s channel. He was 23.

Technoblade suggested in a December, 2021 tweet that he was born in late 1999 or at some point in 2000. His final message did not contain confirmation of his date of birth.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTechnoblade, a top YouTube creator who specialized in Minecraft let’s-play videos, has died a year after he revealed a cancer diagnosis, according to a statement from his family. He was 23.In an emotional YouTube video on Technoblade’s channel, the YouTuber’s father announced that his son had died. “He was the most amazing kid anyone could ever ask for,” his father said.

Nvidia has launched a new Minecraft map with RTX to celebrate the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II.The virtual Minecraft street party will take place at a recreation of Buckingham Palace and Pall Mall to celebrate the event. The creation was brought to life by specialist artist Ushio Tokura using Nvidia’s GeForce RTX GPU, as well as real-time ray tracing.The digital recreation took 650 hours over two weeks to build, and includes 45million individual blocks, spanning around 830,000 square feet in Minecraft.

Mojang developers has launched a pledge to tackle irresponsible NFTs in gaming.Environmental video game group Climate Replay has launched its NFT / Digital Ownership Pledge on its website in a bid to help the industry “work towards a sustainable, socially responsible, equitable future for all.”The organisation is encouraging people to sign the pledge to “tell studios to always put players and planet first.”“We recognise that for many studios, discussing the possibility of NFTs or digital ownership is not a matter of ‘if’, but ‘when’,” starts the announcement.At their best, games introduce us to new friends; immerse us in vivid worlds; and help us through tough times. At their worst, they're a cynical way to make a quick buck.

Jordan Moreau From the watery kingdom of Atlantis to the dangerous deserts of Arrakis, Jason Momoa may be heading to the video game world of Minecraft for Warner Bros, Variety has confirmed.The “Aquaman” and “Dune” star is in talks to join a live-action movie based on the massively popular Minecraft video game, which is the best-selling game of all time with more than 238 million copies sold since its release in 2011.Jared Hess, known for directing “Napoleon Dynamite,” “Nacho Libre” and more, will helm the film. Mary Parent and Roy Lee will produce, and Jill Messick will receive a posthumous credit for working on the film prior to her death in 2018.

Jason Momoa has landed a starring role in the upcoming live-action Minecraft movie!

Warner Bros. has been developing an animated feature film based on the beloved monster-hit video game “Minecraft” for ages and it looks like the studio is ready to get things going sooner rather than later.

Wilson Chapman editorCAA-GBG Global Brand Management Group, one of the leading brand management agencies in the world, will now be under the full ownership of CAA, the company announced on Wednesday.Prior to this transaction, CAA-GBG was a joint operation between CAA and holding company Global Brands Group, which filed for bankruptcy last July. The two companies founded the venture in 2016, and since then it has grown into a premier business for brand management, handling programs for Budweiser, Coca-Cola, The Cheesecake Factory, Formula One, Jaguar Land Rover, the Bob Marley Estate, Minecraft, Netflix, Playboy, Red Bull Racing, Riot Games, Skechers and many others.According to CAA, the management group will immediately be renamed CAA Brand Management, and will be folded into the daily operations of the agency.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales. Despite the increase in userbase over the last year, Horizon Forbidden West was unable to beat the Marvel launch game and also ended up only the second biggest launch of the year, after Pokémon Legends: Arceus.

Minecraft were discovered on a group of youth’s phones.As reported by Moscow Times (via Eurogamer), three teens – Nikita Uvarov, Denis Mikhailenko, and Bogdan Andreyev – were all 14 when they were arrested in 2020 for hanging political leaflets around an FSB building in Siberia. The FSB is Russia’s security service, and is the successor of the KGB.The trio have since been found guilty of “undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out terrorist activities,” which the state says includes plotting to blow up an FSB building they had constructed in Minecraft.This was discovered via the teens’ phones, which – as well as showing a plot to blow up the building in Minecraft – allegedly also included videos of them making pyrotechnics and throwing Molotov cocktails at a wall.Now, Uvarov has been issued a five year sentence to be carried out at a penal colony, whilst Mikhailenko and Andreyev were given three and four-year suspended sentences respectively.Before being given a harsher sentence for his part in the Minecraft “plot”, Uvarov was kept at a pre-trial detention centre where he says he was put under mental and physical pressure.In his closing statement to court, Uvarov said “I am not a terrorist, I am not guilty,” and added that he “would just like to finish my studies, get an education and go somewhere far away from here, somewhere I don’t irritate anyone from the special services.”Earlier in the week, it was announced that the ‘My Wedding Stories‘ pack for The Sims 4 will not launch in Russia due to the country’s homophobic law.

Florida-based global esports and entertainment company Misfits Gaming Group has signed Twitch streamers Ranboo and Tubbo, expanding its roster of Minecraft content creators.

Blockverse, an unofficial NFT project for Minecraft, have gone quiet after raising £975,000 through a public mint.On January 23, Blockverse launched their public sale of 10,000 NFTs that would enable owners access to a play-to-earn Minecraft server “allowing for teamwork and competition. $DIAMONDS are generated through combat and playtime,” reads their whitepaper.Costing 0.05 Ethereum (£97) to mint, all the tokens sold out in eight minutes.

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Minecraft player is attempting to rebuild the entirety of the map from Genshin Impact by themself.The player, 晨曦Archi, originally posted a video showing off their recreation on the Chinese video platform Bilibili, but it was posted to Reddit with their permission. The video shows off several locations in the game, including Mondstadt, Liyue Harbour, the Dawn Winery, and more.

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Minecraft update aims to fix those pesky bees and stop them from accidentally despawning.As noted by PCGamesN, the Mojang bug tracker was noting that bees would sometimes despawn when the world was reloaded. With the priority listed as “important”, the bug description says the bees “are enclosed and so have not wandered off.

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Minecraft players have been given quite the shock as a list posing as alternative account details for cheaters turns out to actually be a ransomware file.This was reported by Fortinet (thanks, PC Gamer) a few days ago (October 28), as Minecraft players in Japan have been looking for, and downloading, what they think is a list of stolen account usernames and password.

The study, titled “Hate is No Game: Harassment and Positive Social Experiences in Online Games 2021”, says that at least 62 per cent of people aged 13-17 have experienced harassment while gaming. The study itself, as reported by The Gamer (thanks, GamingBible) is from a “representative sample” of the 97million Americans that play online games.In collaboration with Newzoo, a data analytics firm that focuses on video games and esports, the ADL study sampled 2,206 people, 542 of which were children aged 13-17.

ThatnerdTY, a Twitch streamer with over 9000 viewers was left shocked when a random spawn in Minecraft led to him beginning his speed-run attempt on a literal “L”.In the clip, ThatnerdTy takes a look at his surroundings, which are mostly water, before looking down at the small mass of land upon which he spawned. “Are you fucking serious dude?” he said as he noticed his unfortunate location.“I hate this game” he continued, bursting into laughter as his chat did the same.

Mojang has announced that Minecraft will be joining the PC library of Xbox Game Pass, with both Java Edition and Bedrock Edition available on the service from November.During Minecraft Live, Mojang revealed that Xbox Game Pass for PC will include Minecraft Java and Bedrock Edition from November 2.Java edition is the PC-exclusive version of Minecraft that the title was originally launched as, while Bedrock Edition is available for a much wider range of platforms.In a blog posted yesterday (October 16), Xbox Game Pass Community Lead Megan Spurr shared the following:“Minecraft is coming to Game Pass for PC November 2! And even better, you’ll have access together for the first time ever as the Minecraft: PC Bundle includes both the Java and

Minecraft player has done what was once thought impossible, and beaten the game blindfolded in just over half an hour.The video was uploaded by YouTuber FrozenMelody earlier in the week (October 13), with the run classed as an Any per cent Set Seed. This means that the run was done on a specific Minecraft world, and not a randomly generated seed, but it doesn’t make it any less impressive.

Minecraft pig, which travels up to 20mph and is controlled by a carrot on a stick.­Electo, a 20-year-old college student from the United States, has built a fully rideable Minecraft pig using an infrared sensor to get the pig to follow a carrot on a stick, which acts as its controller.The pig, which Electo dubs “The Hamburghini”, took just a few months to make and sports full 360-degree motion. To get the pig to turn, you move the carrot in the direction you want it to go.Using a camera that can track colours, the pig follows the carrot as you move it around in front of it.

Minecraft were actually voiced by real-life goats.Mojang has released a brand new video in its YouTube series ‘The Secrets of Minecraft‘ which reveals facts about the popular building game. The latest video focuses on the Caves and Cliffs update, revealing that the game’s goats were voiced by the real animal (thanks, PCGamer).The animated narrator explained that Minecraft’s goats were inspired by the viral video of the screaming goat who sounds like a human.

Daniel Radcliffe has admitted that playing Minecraft made him feel old.Taking part in Wired’s Autocomplete Interview series (which sees people answer commonly Googled questions about themselves), Radcliffe has said that the sandbox construction game made him feel his age.Answering the question, “does Daniel Radcliffe play Minecraft?”, Radcliffe started by saying “Minecraft and Olivia Rodrigo have been two of the real ‘oh, I’m old’ moments recently.”“Minecraft, a few years ago, I was playing it with my Godson, or attempting to play, and he was explaining it to me.

Valorant has the most toxic community for the second year running, according to a recent survey.The survey, carried out by the Anti-Defamation League (via gamesindustry.biz), reveals that a staggering 79% of Valorant players have received some form of online abuse while playing the game online. Dota 2 followed closely behind, with 78% of players reporting harassment.The Valorant community also drove most players away – 42% of players reported that they had become more careful or stopped playing the game entirely because of behaviour encountered while playing the game.

Minecraft is synonymous with its blocky appearance, but a combination of mods can now transform the game’s visuals into something resembling a AAA game with Pixar-style visuals.As spotted in GamesRadar, the results of the mod, which uses the Devorian Steampunk Resource Pack and Kappa Shaders, looks quite unlike Mojang’s creative building sim.However, achieving these results appears to come at the risk of being too much work for even the most powerful GPUs. The below screenshot also appears to be the only image shared so it’s not known how the rest of the game actually looks with the mods.