Everything Revealed About Minecraft: Legends

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Minecraft Legends manages to stand out even among the other exciting games announced at this year's Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase. The latest spin-off title to be set within the iconic franchise universe, fans are more than eager to learn of more details surrounding the game, which Mojang is making in collaboration with Blackbird Interactive.

Boasting a brand-new genre for the Minecraft franchise, there was plenty to be inferred about Legends from its relatively short time in the showcase spotlight. With its story, core gameplay, art style, availability, and release window already being known, Minecraft Legends looks like a very interesting addition to the wider franchise.

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Thanks to the Xbox and Bethesda Games Showcase, it is known that Minecraft Legends is set to be a strategy adventure game set within the iconic and illustrious block-based world of Minecraft. Due to its nature as a strategy game, Legends will be significantly less open-ended than Minecraft itself, instead taking place within a world that necessitates strategic thought and map control.

Minecraft Legends will be inherently tied to Xbox, due to the gaming giant buying Minecraft developer Mojang for $2.5 billion in 2014, in what was the first of many recent high-profile acquisitions for Xbox. This link is conveyed well in the fact that Minecraft Legends was additionally confirmed to be a day-one release for Xbox Game Pass on Console and PC, with the title also coming to other platforms such as PlayStation and Nintendo Switch. While still quite vague, Minecraft Legends has been officially confirmed to have a 2023 release window.

As is the case with most, if not all, Minecraft spin-offs titles,