Minecraft is the winner of the Still Playing Award at the Golden Joystick Awards 2024

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The numbers have been totted up, the players have spoken, and 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft has been voted the winner of the coveted Still Playing Award on PC and Console at the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Golden Joystick Awards 2024.

It's fair to say that Minecraft has become a global phenomenon and cultural touchstone in the *checks notes* 15 years since it first became available in 2009, becoming the first video game to sell ov♊er 300 million copies. Unless you've been living in a cave for all of that time, then it's likely tha🦋t you'll already be familiar with this building sandbox and what it's capable of.

Minecraft had to overcome 11 competitors to take home the Still Playing Award on PC and Console, defeating online stalwarts including Fortnite, Roblox, and the other 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Golden Joystick Awards 2024 nomi💜nees for this prize:

  • Apex Legends
  • Counter-Strike 2
  • EA Sports FC 
  • Dota 2
  • Fortnite
  • GTA Online
  • Minecraft (winner)
  • Naraka: Bladepoint
  • Roblox
  • Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
  • Valorant
  • Warframe

In our revisited 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Minecraft review all the way back in 2017 we described it as "A communal imaginarium, a cultural phenomenon, and an epic social experiment" that offers "A big, beautiful welcome mat to the front door of your imagination". That summary still holds true today, with recent building projects including 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Bloodborne's Yharnam, a real-world infrastructure proj🐬eꦕct for Japan's government, and 澳洲幸运5开奖🌠号码历史查询:an entire fantasy kingdom 12 years in the making.

The world of Minecraft is still evolving after all of this time, with the announcement in the last couple of months that the developers are 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:completely rꦿevamp✤ing how they do updates,🌠 eschewing the previous infrequent m𓆉ajor patches packed with fresh content for more regular free update "game drops" to add new features as and when they're ready.

With the game being 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:turned into a Netflix aniღmated series, as well as the live-action 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:A Minecraft Movie with Jack Black and Jason Momoa at the h🧜elm, you can expect to hear plenty more about Minecraft in 2025.

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