The game was already the bestselling game of all time. Now, it’s sold even more, beating out the runner up by over 100 million copies. Minecraft already has the distinction of being the bestselling video game of all time. Now, it has added more down to that particular feather in its cap with the announcement that it has sold a staggering 300 million copies. “As we approach the 15th anniversary, Minecraft remains one of the best-selling games of all time, with over 300 million copies sold, a milestone no one could have dreamed of when we were all placing our first blocks,” Helen Chiang, head of Mojang Studios, said in a statement. The new milestone was announced during Minecraft Live 2023, a Minecraft livestream event that shares news and community updates and features a neat voting event in which players can vote on which new creature should be added to the game. This year, your choices are between a crab, an armadillo, and a cute penguin. Three hundred million copies of Minecraft is nothing to sneeze at, eclipsing sales of just about every other piece of entertainment media since we started keeping track. To put it in perspective, Thriller, the […]
| runner up | második helyezett |
| distinction | megkülönböztető cím |
| to add a down to a feather in sb’s cap | még nagyobb dicsőséget szerezni neki |
| announcement | bejelentés |
| staggering | elképesztő, döbbenetes |
| to remain | megmaradni |
| statement | bejelentés |
| milestone | mérföldkő |
| voting event | szavazás |
| creature | teremtmény |
| crab | rák |
| armadillo | tatu |
| it is nothing to sneeze at | nem lebecsülendő |
| to eclipse | felülmúlni |
| to keep track | számontartani |
| to top out | tetőzni |
