Sometimes it just boggles the mind how popular the video game Minecraft has become. Other times, it’s 4am and I’m wondering why I bothered to dig all the way down to the bedrock in search of diamonds for the 50 millionth time. Minecraft is a largely multiplayer game, but we’ve been restricted to playing with players on the same platform – no more. An update to Minecraft: Pocket Edition and Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta means that players on PC, Android, iOS, and Windows Phone will be able to play together on a local network. It’s not quite true cross-platform multiplayer on hosted servers, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
This latest update brings Minecraft: Pocket Edition up to version 0.12.1 – why they never bothered to bring it up to version 1.0, we’ll never know. Cross-platform multiplayer isn’t all that Minecraft: Pocket Edition is getting – new touch controls, controller support and controller mapping options have also been added which should make quite a few people happy. The ability to finally sprint and crawl have also been added to the Pocket Edition. For more info about the update, be sure to check out Microsoft’s post about it here.
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Source: Xbox Wire
