Mojang Studios and Play Mechanix team up to make Minecraft Dungeons: Arcade, with its own arcade cabinet
Minecraft Dungeons is heading to the arcade - but not in the way you know.
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Minecraft Dungeonshas already enjoyed an incredible couple of weeks, afterreleasing its biggest update yetwith the massiveFlames of the Nether DLC. Now, Mojang Studios has surprised players everywhere by announcing thatMinecraft Dungeons is heading to arcades!
Mojang Studios is pairing up with legendary arcade company Play Mechanix, who designed an awesome-looking arcade cabinet for Minecraft Dungeons. The Minecraft Dungeons present on this machine isn’t quite the sameversion of Minecraft Dungeonsyou know, though, as Mojang Studios has made plenty of changes to make Minecraft Dungeons fit better in an arcade environment.
The arcade machine supports four-player local co-op, with “Melee,” “Dodge,” and “Range” buttons for each player (on top of movement). The game will take players across nine familiar levels to battle hordes of vicious enemies, and see Minecraft Dungeons in a different light (and sometimes from different angles!).
However, Mojang Studios have massively shaken things up with one new mechanic: cards. Players will have a chance to earn up to 60physical collectible cardsfrom playing Minecraft Dungeons: Arcade, with each card depicting a different weapon, pet, skin, or item. Each session, players will be able to scan up to five of the cards from their collection to equip their hero with all the gear and class they need to prevail. To earn cards, players will fill up their “card meters” while playing by defeating mobs, completing levels, and more. The more you play, the more chance you have of collecting every card!
Minecraft Dungeons: Arcade is heading to a select few arcades across North America right now for testing, and will expand more in the future. Hopefully, an arcade near you will feature Minecraft Dungeons: Arcade and its unique take on the established Minecraft Dungeons formula. Either way, it’s exciting to see Mojang Studios offeryet another way to play Minecraft Dungeons.
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Explore new worlds in Minecraft Dungeons.
It’s been a busy first year for Minecraft Dungeons, and now the ARPG dungeon-crawling Minecraft spin-off is looking ahead towards its future, with four new expansions planned. The first two, Howling Peaks and Flames of the Nether, are available right now, but players can also grab the new Season Pass to gain immediate access to all four expansions as soon as they launch.
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