Mojang announced yesterday that Minecraft Dungeons Arcade caste is on the way in arcades in North America for limited tests, with more cabinets later this year.
Released on Xbox One and PC last year, Minecraft Dungeons is a Diablo– like a church crawler living in the blocky world of Minecraft. Up to four players can jump in together and fight back waves Minecraft enemies, such as skeletons, zombies, and spiders. Now there is a new, less convenient, a vnsafe way to play Minecraft Dungeons. Just go to an arcade (during a pandemic) to play the new Minecraft Dungeons Arcade games, developed by Play Mechanix and Mojang.
As set out in a blog post announcing the new arcade machine, Minecraft Dungeons Arcade will take the action and gameplay of the original game and simplify things a bit to make it work better than a collaborative arcade game. Players even earn different physical trades cards they can collect and scan to the machine for new powers, weapons, and pets.
The cabinet also looks good and the screenshots in the game shared by Mojang look good. It all sounds nice. But I can not imagine that I would risk the world at the moment during the covid-19 pandemic, just to play an arcade game that other people might have just touched and played moments before. Especially if that game is available at home and there are good ones.
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Mojang did emphasize it that they only send cabinets to arcades ‘follow local health guidelines ”in order to helps to slow down and mitigate the spread of covides risk. But maybe it would have waited until this summer, after that more people were vaccinated?