NerdNightmare

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“Too deep we delved there, and woke the nameless fear.”

Visions of Dwarven mines, Mithril, and Balrogs, danced in my head when I first heard about Minecraft on 4chan’s traditional games board a few months ago, and with the recent Penny-Arcade comics the game has garnered a lot of buzz.

And it’s well deserved.

Developed by Markus Persson, the game is very simple yet very addicting. You are a lone man (unless your playing multi-player) in a randomly generated world, and to stay alive you must DIG.  There is no plot. No dialogue. Nothing but digging, crafting, and slaying. The visuals are simple cubes with 8-bit style textures. But it works.

A copy of Minecraft is about 9 euros, and I highly recommend it. You will have fun, and you will be addicted.

I knew I was after I built a floating stone skull castle atop a mountain, and then had a dream about living in it later that night.