Minecraft Dungeons turns into an arcade game

Mojang announced yesterday that Minecraft Dungeon Arcade the cabinets are On the way at the arcades in North America for limited testing, with more cabinets coming later this year.

Released last year on Xbox One and PC, Minecraft dungeons is a Diablo– as a dungeon crawler located in the blocky world of Minecraft. Up to four players can jump together and fight waves of Minecraft enemies, like skeletons, zombies, and spiders. Now there is a new one, less practical, and onesafe way of playing Minecraft dungeons. Just go to an arcade (during pandemic) play the new one Minecraft Dungeon Arcade Thu, developed by Play Mechanix and Mojang.

As explained in a blog post announcing the new arcade machine, Minecraft Dungeon Arcade will take the action and gameplay from the original game and simplify things a bit to make it work better as a cooperative arcade game. Players will even win different physical exchanges cards that they can collect and scan in the machine to get new powers, weapons, and domestic animals.

The cabinet looks great too and the game screenshots shared by Mojang look great. It all sounds good. But I can’t imagine venturing out into the world right now, during the covid-19 pandemic, just to play an arcade game that maybe other people had just touched and played a few moments before. Especially when this game is available at home and goes very well.

Mojang pointed out that they only send wardrobes to the arcades “follow local health guidelines ”in order to help slow the spread of covid and mitigate risk. But maybe it could have waited until this summer, after more people were vaccinated?

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