Minecraft pulls Pocket users closer to Windows with paid DLC and Paint 3D support

Minecraft's new Discovery Update later this spring will offer something new to explore: an in-app, paid marketplace of content that users can download for the company's version of the game on the Xbox One and "pocket" mobile editions. The update, due later this spring, stretches Minecraft in two directions. The new Minecraft Marketplace moves the UWP version of the game a bit closer to the moddable worlds familiar to classic players. Initially, Microsoft plans to partner with nine content creators in the first iteration of the Minecraft Marketplace, though a partner program will encourage more to sign up. The Store will provide both "skins" of existing content, as well as new Adventure Maps, where content creators can provide their own custom worlds and rules to lay out a guided story for players to play through.