Best games: November 2014

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Minecraft is a sandbox independent video game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Perssonand later developed and published by the Swedish company Mojang since 2009. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft allow players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, gathering resources, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival modes where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, acreative mode where players have unlimited resources to build and the ability to fly, and an adventure mode where players play custom maps created by other players.

The alpha version was publicly released for PC on May 17, 2009, and after gradual updates, the full version was released on November 18, 2011. A version for Android was released a month earlier on October 7, and an iOSversion was released on November 17, 2011. The game was released on the Xbox 360 as an Xbox Live Arcade game on May 9, 2012, on the PlayStation 3 on December 17, 2013, on the PlayStation 4 on September 4, 2014, on theXbox One the next day, and on the PlayStation Vita on October 14, 2014. All versions of Minecraft receive periodic updates, with the console editions being co-developed by 4J Studios.

Minecraft received five awards during the 2011 Game Developers Conference. Of the Game Developers Choice Awards, it won the Innovation Award, Best Downloadable Game Award, and Best Debut Game Award; from theIndependent Games Festival, it won the Audience Award and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. In 2012, Minecraftwas awarded a Golden Joystick Award in the category Best Downloadable Game.

As of October 10, 2014, over 12 million copies of the game on the Xbox 360 and 17 million copies on PC have been sold; nearly 54 million copies have been sold across all platforms, making it one of the best-selling video games of all time.

On September 15, 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to buy Mojang, the developer of Minecraft, granting the company ownership of the game's intellectual property. The all-cash deal was worth $2.5 billion. and the deal was completed on November 6, 2014.

Geometry dash

Geometry Dash is a 2013 mobile game, developed by Sweden-based developer Robert Topala, and also published by Robotop Games, which was founded by himself. It is a rhythm-based running game which has 18 levels currently, with each stage featuring unique background music. Although the player is not required to complete a level to advance to the next, they will often increase in difficulty. Other features of the game that exist in the latest versions are the level builder, map packs, user-created levels, secret coins, and a great variety of icons.

Topala also created a free version of the game, known simply as Geometry Dash Lite, which includes the first 7 levels of the full version up to now. This variant, excluding several features from the paid version, does not feature the level builder or user-created levels. Geometry Dash Lite has, however, been far more popular of a game in both the App Store Play Store due to its pricing.