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You might remember me posting about Minecraft Skin Studio for iOS. It’s a handy app that lets you design your Minecraft skin on your mobile device or tablet. You can also download other user’s skins for use in-game. A, frankly ludicrous, 500,000 skins are already available in the app. Now Minecraft Skin Studio is available for Android. 57digial have redesigned the interface for your less fruity devices, and even made a new trailer to celebrate. Download it here. Hope you have fun! Owen – @bopogamel Continue reading...

MINECON tickets are here! In an effort to be fair to people who have jobs or school and those with different schedules we’re releasing tickets in 3 batches to cover different days and times. Each batch is for 2500 tickets and you can purchase up to 6 tickets in one order, to cover families or groups of friends traveling together. The release schedule is as follows: Ticket Batch 1 – Wednesday July 31 @ 4pm PDT / 7pm EDT Ticket Batch 2 – Friday August 2nd @ 7am PDT / 10am EDT Ticket Batch 3 – Saturday August 3rd @ 12pm PDT / 3pm EDT When you book your tickets you can also book hotels at our special MINECON rates. We have a variety of hotels available with different prices and different distances from the Convention Center. Visit...

This year we’re holding our third MINECON event, and now that tickets are sold out and we are deep into planning I thought I’d give a little bit more info into the event and how/why we do some of the things we do for it. MINECON is exciting to us. It’s a chance to bring together thousands of Minecraft players all in one place and give them a chance to meet each other and Mojang, and give people a really amazing experience involving a game that is so integrated into our lives. TICKET SALES We choose to keep MINECON limited to a relatively small group of people so that we can interact with them and give them the best experience possible. We split the ticket sales into 3 batches of 2500 to give people the most chance of being able to...