Minecraft for iOS is here

Depending on which side of the International Date Line your computer thinks you are, Minecraft for iPhone and iPad is available now. I'm looking forward to reading the reviews, but I'll probably buy it the instant it becomes available in the US.

John Brownlee has more: Minecraft Is Coming To The iPhone And iPad Later Today!

• [Zero Sonico]

  May be cool on iPad, but I’m not sure about iPhone… hmm… we’ll see later today, I suppose.

• [Finnagain]

  Why?

• [Lobster]

  Diggy DIGGY hole!

• [Andrew Singleton]

  Mojang better make it snappy since SOPA passes. EA or somebody else’s gonna hit the big shiny shutdown button as payback for a no-name studio making Millions and making all the Big Names look bad.

• [Eric]

  I love how people are making a big deal about this when Pocket Edition has been available for Android for over a month: 
  http://mojang.com/2011/10/07/minecraft-pocket-edition-on-android/

  • [quentin]

    Well, Android apps don’t run on iOS, so it’s kind of a big deal.

  • [teapot]

    You beat me to rubbing their noses in it. Oh, oh, wait! It’s $6.99 for Android.

    *high fives Eric*

• [.]

  Does IOS even run Java? Or did they have to run through a magic re compiler to put in some IOS friendly form?

• [quentin]

  $10?
  Man, I really have somehow completely missed the boat on the minecraft thing. Perhaps I am just unrefined with regards to online gaming, because the game itself just seems like a waste. It’s on par with farmville for me…

• [Ben Godby]

  I’m assuming this is only Creative mode, since I don’t know how you’d avoid being zombie-massacred on a touchscreen… LAAAAAME

• [Ballpeen]

  Hey, it’s $6.99 at the moment for IOS too!!  Ha, take that!  pew pew

• [Anon_Mahna]

  tried it for Droid, and honestly, it’s cumbersome, and not much fun in this format.