NOW OFFICIALLY THE #1 GAME OF ALL TIME

The MINECRAFT games brand will soon be expanding to a whole new level. In spring 2020, the Minecraft Community will have a whole new way to experience MINECRAFT when MINECRAFT EARTH LAUNCHES—A FREE-TO-PLAY MOBILE GAME which will bring the world of MINECRAFT to everyone’s mobile device worldwide. Like POKEMON GO, this augmented reality game will allow MINECRAFT players to interact with the game in the real world!

NEW MINECRAFT DUNGEONS GAME COMING IN SPRING 2020: An all-new action-adventure game, inspired by classic dungeon crawlers coming to PC, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One and Xbox Game Pass

This is the fourth FULLY AUTHORIZED MINECRAFT NOVEL, following The Island by Max Brooks, The Crash by Tracey Baptiste, and The Lost Journal by Mur Lafferty. It will be developed in close coordination with Mojang, the team behind the all-ages global phenomenon video game.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERS: The first two official novels, The Island by Max Brooks and The Crash by Tracey Baptiste, have both been on the New York Times bestseller list for 49 weeks and 21 weeks respectively.

AUTHOR: Catherynne M. Valente is a Locus award-winning and New York Times bestselling author whose books have been hailed as “complex, rich and memorable” by Kirkus Reviews. Tamora Pierce is counted among her many fans, saying “Valente’s subversive storytelling is sheer magic.”

MINECRAFT BRAND IS STILL GROWING: Total sales of the game across all editions are now in excess of 200 million units—more people are playing than ever before. There are 126 million monthly active players. And over 22 million units of the original PC/Mac version sold, making it the bestselling PC game of all time. TellTale Games released Minecraft: Story Mode in 2015 (ten episodes released to date), and MinecraftEDU—a teaching tool that employs Minecraft in the classroom—has been used in classes worldwide since 2011.

MINECRAFT USAGE SPIKES DURING PANDEMIC: Minecraft game saw a 25 percent increase in new players in April 2020 and a 40 percent spike in multiplayer sessions.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Minecraft has over 12 million likes on Facebook and almost 1 million followers on Twitter. Mojang, Minecraft’s development company, has over 1 million subscribers on YouTube.

MINECON: The Minecraft annual community convention took on a new format in 2018. There will be monthly regional shows in cities all over the country where fans can meet to celebrate their favorite videogame.

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Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of more than two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including Space Opera and The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making. She has been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards, and has won the Locus and Andre Norton Award. She lives on a small island off the coast of Maine with her partner, two dogs, one enormous cat, a less enormous cat, six chickens, a red accordion, an uncompleted master’s degree, a roomful of yarn, a spinning wheel with ulterior motives, a cupboard of jam and pickles, a bookshelf full of folktales, an industrial torch, and an Oxford English Dictionary.

Author Residence: Peaks Island, ME

“[Minecraft: The End is] not just a gaming companion, it’s also a compelling story. It’s funny, and epic, and . . . hit me right in the heart.”—PixelatedGeek.com