AppleInsider Staff
The Apple TV edition of popular world building game Minecraft is now available to purchase on the tvOS App Store, and it includes the newly released Ender Update, along with a number of other downloadable content.
All 7 pieces of DLC are included in the $19.99 price, including the Holiday 2015, Town Folk, and City Folk skin packs, as well as the Plastic, Natural, Cartoon, and Festive 2016 mash-ups.
The new Ender Update is also available for free to Minecraft Pocket players on iOS, while the new Festive Mash-Up Pack 2016 can be purchased to add on for $3.99.
Apple Chief Executive Tim Cook first announced in October that Minecraft was coming to the fourth-generation Apple TV before the end of 2016. It made that deadline on Monday with less than two weeks to go in the year.
Minecraft was first released in 2009 and was ultimately purchased by Microsoft in September of 2014. The game allows players to build in a procedurally generated world either in a game-oriented survival mode, or in a free-build mode with no constraints on materials.
Minecraft is also available for Mac for $26.95, or on iOS for $6.99.
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Cool. I'm interested in the details. Multiplayer? Controller required? My son will be ecstatic just because it exists, not sure if we'll buy. ... looks like Realms and XBox Live accounts aren't supported yet. Hmm...
This game is so addictive and has a very negative impact, I do not allow my kids to play it anymore. Actually it would be nice if Apple gives us an option to surpress it on the App store completely.
A game that allows kids to collaboratively build worlds in imaginative ways has a "very negative impact"? Compared to what? Gears of War?
This is like saying Legos have a very negative impact...
Maybe they are concerned their kids are becoming interested in the grubby worlds of construction and engineering when they should be interested in something noble like journalism or politics.