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As we all know, Microsoft owns both Mojang and the Minecraft game (MS paid 2.5 billion dollars for Minecraft back in September last year).

And just like i wrote in my article about MS and Minecraft (back then), i knew that MS would like to get their big investment back asap.

Rightfully so though, because 2.5 billion bucks is a lot of cash. So when i heard about Mojangs and Telltale Games “Minecraft: Story Mode“. I knew that it´s just one of many “new” Minecraft products to come.

Is Telltale Games “Minecraft: Story mode” just a “money grab” project?

But will Telltale Games be able to make a Minecraft game that doesen´t feel like a “Copy and paste” kind of game? (cashing in on a well-known title).

Hard to say at this time, because there´s not that information to be found about Minecraft: Story Mode at this time.

However, Mojang was friendly enough to post this information on their homepage not so long ago:

About Minecraft: Story Mode:
– Minecraft: Story mode will be a narrative-driven video game created by Telltale Games. It will be about Minecraft.
– Mojang is collaborating with Telltale and members of the community to make Minecraft: Story Mode as Minecrafty as possible.
– The first episode will be released some time in 2015, and will be available on Xbox consoles, PlayStation consoles, PC, Mac, iOS, and Android-based devices.
– Minecraft: Story Mode will be released episodically, just like The Wolf Among Us, The Walking Dead, or the recent Tales from the Borderlands, which is another developer-collaboration series between Telltale Games and Gearbox Software.
– We’re not intending on creating an “official” story for Steve, or explaining the world of Minecraft in detail. It will be a cool game.

Source:
Mojang