Minecraft is truly a popular game. This year she will turn 12 years old, and her popularity is only growing. It is not surprising that hundreds of developers are eager to grab a piece of fame, creating all kinds of mods, clones and parodies. We have collected 15 of the most interesting and memorable projects that can supplant the creation of Mojang Studios.

Electronic Arts officially acquired the Codemasters studio and took over the rights to DiRT, F1 and other racing simulators. The deal amounted to $1.2 billion, but this is far from the largest purchase in the industry. It is about the most impressive deals of game developers that we will talk about in this article.

Everyone loves BioWare for Baldur's Gate, Neverwinter Nights, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, Dragon Age: Origins and the Mass Effect trilogy. However, the latest projects of the developers can only be called failures. Anthem had hopes of finally realizing its enormous potential, but BioWare recently announced that a reboot was no longer in the works. And this is not the first time this has happened to Canadians. Read more about this and other developer failures in this material.

The gaming industry is the territory of big money, and where you can hear the rustling of banknotes, conflicts cannot be avoided. Another scandal broke out recently: Ukrainian developers from Frogwares announced that the publishing house Nacon had hacked the game The Sinking City and was selling it on Steam. Read more about this and other conflicts in game development in this collection.

It's no secret that gamers are incorrigible romantics. Other worlds beckon us both day and night... just like their charming inhabitants. In honor of the holiday of spring and female beauty, we decided to remember the most irresistible ladies of gaming. Dream, celebrate and fall in love with us!

In the age of the advanced Internet, the cover of a game is not a determining factor when purchasing: reviews, testimonials and gameplay videos mean much more. However, not so long ago there were much fewer sources of information about new projects, and it was the face of the game, its cover, that had the greatest influence on sales. Probably every developer and publisher considered it their duty to design a disc or cartridge in a cool way? No matter how it is! The strangest, most ridiculous, funny and frightening game covers are in this material.

Gamers built a 400-meter Eiffel Tower in Valheim. The impressive structure delighted many — us too. In this material, we decided to collect the most ambitious fan buildings from different games. Hurry to see, because each of them is simply breathtaking!

We live in very tolerant times, when an innocent action (sometimes even inaction) or a harmless word can ruin a life and ruin a career. How do you feel about the prospect of losing a profitable Twitch channel because a request to play chess with you was sent by a user with an erotic picture in his avatar? This is exactly what happened to streamer H2P_Gucio. We will tell you more about this and other ridiculous bans in this collection.

Respected scientists from a German university have revealed to the world a creepy webcam in the shape of a human eye — it can even blink and move its eyeball. Just imagine playing through an atmospheric horror game with such a device on your monitor! However, there are already a lot of crazy accessories in the gaming world, so there is nothing to be surprised about. We'll tell you about the wildest of them in this collection!

Many players have favorite game series that they want to return to again and again. With the right approach, developers continue to develop projects and try to release better and better games each time. But it also happens differently — unsuccessful sequels bury cool series. Let's talk about such cases now.