Microsoft has announced that Minecraft is coming to Chromebooks and is available to try right away via an Early Access version. The game will include "cross-device play with friends, access to Minecraft Marketplace, and the ability to play on Realms," according to developer Mojang. It will require a decently equipped Chromebook with specific processors, 4GB of RAM and 1GB of storage, as detailed here. Those requirements may frustrate some potential users, considering that Chromebooks are widely used in schools and that Minecraft is played by a lot of kids. "Early access means that in this first stage, only selected Chromebook devices that meet the minimum requirements will get the option to buy Minecraft, so you'll have to check the Google Play Store to see if Minecraft is available for you," according to the blog post.

We believe that games can spark curiosity for learning. And happily, we are not alone. During the development of our previous games, we've really enjoyed working together with wonderful players from Steam. Thank you for 20,000 feedback messages, endless fun, and for your emotional support. We've decided to launch Learning Factory as Early Access and invite you to join our journey to meet new friends, have fun and make the best game we can." Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access? "Year " How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? "Please take a look at our public roadmap to learn more.

Starpoint Gemini 3 has reached a stage in which we'd love to get players involved. There's a lot You can do in the game and a lot more is on the way, but what we're really looking forward to is Your Feedback, with a capital F. Our previous successful endeavors in Early Access have shown us just how crucial that is to create, not a good game, but a great one. We'd like to invite everyone to join us in this.

"It is being told that every single one who enters Early Access is a millionaire! To be honest - almost no one. Moreover, those, who enter Early Access, are rather poor fellows. In reality, we are reaching towards Early Access because we want to know if there is anyone out there in the world same crazy as we are who will love playing our game. We found Luden.io company in a strong belief that we would be making games which will benefit people. Games are absolutely amazing since no other format allows you to experiment and learn something new like if you were in someone else's skin. Thanks to you we now know what shall we do if a zombie apocalypse will break down, so you should realize that games can save our lives one day... But I got away from the topic I wanted to discuss. As many know, in 2014 we found a treasure - a VR helmet, - and we thought that this is a sign for us to begin doing our thing. We began our path with simple educational VR games like InMind, InMind 2 and InCell. But there was an obstacle on the path to our dream. Something with a wire, demanding for 90 FPS and making you feel uncomfortable physically. VR has a lot of pros and cons, but there is no need to argue that this technology and this type of content needs a few more years of development before players will have a desire to own VR devices at home. We did not want to retreat, so we had to find out a solution. We knew that we could not wait for a few more years because we were crazily curious about what would the players think of useful games, would such projects be in demand, would people want to show them on Youtube and Twitch and would they learn something new while playing. Would there be a player, who would get inspired by a useful game so much that he would become a doctor of science and invent a huge planetary laser or resurrect dinosaurs? So, we got so excited and we could not wait at all, so we decided to forget about VR and throw gamers an educational game as soon as possible. It was not hard to think of an idea behind the future game. PR guy told us to write it like so: "Machine learning is everywhere around these days, everyone is writing about it, but unfortunately not everyone out there has time and special knowledge to get involved in this topic easily.