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Minecraft has announced the Marketplace Pass for $3.99 per month

Mojang have announced a new Minecraft subscription service, the Marketplace Pass, which grants access to a catalogue of "150+" community-created Minecraft thingy-ma-bobs. Skins, adventure worlds, survival spawns, mashups, bizarre textures - with a Marketplace Pass, the wider monetisable universe of Minecraft is your (rented) oyster, except that this being Minecraft, the oyster looks like a weird underwater trapdoor. Here's a trailer.

Mojang has announced a monthly subscription for Minecraft called Marketplace Pass, which gives payers access to «150+ different content packs» from the in-game Marketplace.

Minecraft has introduced Marketplace Pass, a new subscription service that promises access to a rotating array of community-created content and some extras at $3.99 per month. Although this offering has some overlap with Realms Plus, it's meant to coexist alongside other Minecraft subscriptions.

After being operational for about 18 months, GameStop's NFT marketplace is officially shutting down. This move marks the company's exit from the NFT business entirely, as previously GameStop has also ended support for its own cryptocurrency wallet.

GameStop is in the process of closing its cryptocurrency marketplace a year and a half after launch.

GameStop has announced that it will be closing its NFT marketplace.

To stream as their ethereal alter ego, Mai, a VTuber known as M41H41, typically had to juggle at least four to seven different programs. Running all of them at once, however, was both mentally exhausting and a burden on their computer, which could overheat mid-stream. If a program crashed, they’d have to break character to fix it. 

Players will be able to buy and sell skins sometime in 2024.

It used to be the case that comparisons between Rainbow Six Siege and Counter-Strike ended at their 5v5 team sizes and bomb rulesets, but Ubisoft is cooking up its own version of a feature that's become synonymous with Valve's tactical FPS: the skin marketplace.

Game Jolt has unveiled a user-generated content (UGC) marketplace for players to buy digital items from both creators and brands.

In the early morning of September 9 (September 8 for the Western Hemisphere), Roblox, the popular online gaming platform, held the keynote session of the Roblox Developers Conference (RDC) from the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. During the event, the company revealed a number of new developments at work, which will be coming later to the platform. Among the announced new features, the biggest highlight was an AI assistant that will enable creators to build faster worlds and create new virtual experiences. Alongside, Roblox also made one of its biggest changes to its ecosystem in a long time by making its marketplace open. Let us take a look at the highlights from the keynote session.

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Microsoft will close the Xbox 360 marketplace in July 2024, but says the closure won't affect the ability to play Xbox 360 games or DLC that have already been purchased.

Microsoft has announced that it’s shutting down on July 29th, 2024. Players won’t be able to purchase new titles, DLC or other content via the Xbox 360 Store on consoles or the dedicated website.

Microsoft will close the Xbox 360 Marketplace on July 29, 2024, the company announced.

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If you tuned into the Pokemon Presents stream, you might have caught the latest trailer highlighting Detective Pikachu Returns. This game picks up after the original release, which hit a worldwide launch in 2018 for the Nintendo 3DS. However, this latest installment is going to land on the Nintendo Switch. A brand new trailer has been released, offering a bit more insight into the game and when exactly we can mark down our calendars. If you’re a Pokemon fan, then you can expect Detective Pikachu Returns to land in the marketplace on October 6, 2023. 

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