¡®Minecraft¡¯ creeps into Nintendo
This New Nintendo 2DS LL ¡°Minecraft¡± edition is one of Nintendo¡¯s most unusual releases to date. The console¡¯s cover shows the face of a Creeper, ¡°Minecraft¡± enemy characters that chase players and explode, The special edition is to commemorate ¡°Minecraft: New Nintendo 3DS Edition,¡± which was released last fall.
Limited-edition handhelds are common, but they are usually based on games owned by the platform. ¡°Minecraft,¡± however, was developed by Swedish game studio Mojang, which Microsoft bought in 2014, making it a Microsoft, not Nintendo, game. While it¡¯s unusual for a first-party game company to release a title on a rival¡¯s platform, both Sony and Nintendo have released versions of ¡°Minecraft¡± on their hardware.
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