In case you have not heard of it, Minecraft has single-handedly become the biggest indie game of the century. Created by Swedish game developer Markus "Notch" Persson in 2009, Minecraft is a completely randomly generated sandbox world that allows players to build out of practically anything they can find. Although the title is still in its beta, as of early February 2011, it had sold over 1,230,000 units and has only been available on PC and Mac, until now.
Assuming you are one of the lucky few who already own or intend on owning a Sony Ericsson Xperia PLAY, for the time being you will have exclusive access to a new mobile variant of this hit indie title. Developers Mojang were rumored to have been working on versions of the game for both iOS and Android and although there is no news of Apple side of the fence, the PLAY is the first Android device that will be able to run the game.
Mojang spoke of the difficulties and differences of porting a game like Minecraft to mobile devices: "When playing on smartphones you will have a different screen size compared to PC, different hardware, different attention spans and thus the game needs to be customized to fit the mobile specifications" and this version will only officially work on the PLAY for the time being.
