After being knocked off for over a decade, it appears that Microsoft and Mojang Studios are taking a page out of other video game companies' books.
Minecraft is the best-selling video game of all time with nearly 250 million units sold. However, Microsoft has expanded Minecraft to other media, in recent years. For example, there's the interactive Minecraft TV series on Netflix, Minecraft: Story Mode. On top of this, Mojang came out with a dungeon crawler, Minecraft Dungeons, last year. The spin-off was surprisingly good and even made it to our list of the best dungeon crawlers on the market today.
Fast forward to a year later and Minecraft's latest spin-off will borrow elements straight out of StarCraft and Command & Conquer, but with a twist.
Minecraft Legends is an upcoming real-time-strategy game that asks you to command and control an army composed of Minecraft mobs against an invading force. The most interesting part here is that Minecraft Legends is not a standard RTS. Instead of giving you an elevated shot of the entire battlefield, Minecraft Legends will attempt to keep the action intimate by adopting a third-person perspective. This isn't an entirely new concept as we've seen it done in the late 90s and early 200s, so we're curious to see what Mojang's take on it will look like.