Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they would be opening up the hugely popular virtual game environment Minecraft for scientific research. They launched Minecraft AIX to utilize the platform for research into areas such as AI. The platform was developed at Microsoft's Cambridge lab and allows researchers to use the Minecraft environment to test out their theories and, hopefully, therefore make progress in the field of AI. One of the first examples of this in practice was unveiled in a recently published paper whereby scientists put AI algorithms through their paces in Minecraft constructed mazes. Mazes have long been used in behavioral psychology as researchers tested the ability of rats and mice to remember things and learn new pathways, with a particular emphasis on reinforcement learning.