For those who prefer to actually play Minecraft instead of waiting for a box of goodies to be delivered to their doorstep, Mojang has announced a pre-release version of Minecraft 1.9 is now available ...

On October 6, 2011, Notch tweeted, "The weird black stuff in 1.9 pre 3!" and linked to this video of Minecraft Goop. This is the new 'portal' block for the portals that lead to the new dimension "The ...