The smash hit PC game, Minecraft, is now officially coming to the App Store this year. However, Mojang's perpetual work-in-progress will land on the Android mobile platform first, with plans to launch September 29.
If you're not up to speed on the whole Minecraft-phenomenon, the game is an open-world sandbox game in which players roam the world searching for minerals and other goods to build monuments, buildings, castles, anything they can dream up. Just run a YouTube search for "amazing" and "minecraft" and you're bound to get a decent glimpse at what the game has to offer.
Due to the game's ridiculous popularity, we've been anxiously awaiting news of the upcoming mobile version which was first betrothed to Xperia Play as an exclusive. Now we're getting word that it will be out in just two days for Android, and sometime before the end of the year on iOS.
For those of you Minecraft-nuts, we've even got a glimpse of how the game will play on a touch screen. Just like the PC version, the controls are very simple, which fits a mobile game. We're just hoping that the touch screen controls don't hinder the play experience. Minecraft is a game that takes a lot of patience. And patience is something that can quickly be eroded by bad controls. Check out the video below:
