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Minecraft
Mojang's sandbox-building phenomenon — one of the most-played games in history, and still a genuinely singular creative engine.
Minecraft is an unusual franchise to cover. There's really one game, still actively updated more than a decade in, with a long tail of spin-offs around it (Dungeons, Legends) that have never quite rivalled the main thing. That makes a franchise hub partly a history of the updates — Adventure, Combat, Nether, Caves & Cliffs — because that's where the meaningful design decisions live.
What keeps Minecraft editorially interesting isn't the update calendar, though. It's the strange place it occupies as a creative tool for millions of people who don't think of themselves as "gamers" — a sandbox that became infrastructure.
This hub covers retrospectives on the update eras, reviews of the spin-offs, and the broader question of what a game becomes when it stops being a release and starts being a platform.
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