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Published on December 8th, 2015 | by Admin

Best-Selling Sandbox Game Minecraft Heads to Nintendo eShop on Wii U

8th December, 2015 – Mojang’s video game phenomenon Minecraft will launch on Nintendo’s Wii U home console on December 18 in Australia and New Zealand. Minecraft: Wii U Edition comes with multiple add-on content packs, and will be available in the Nintendo eShop on Wii U. Nintendo and Mojang are also collaborating on new content for Nintendo fans to be released at a future date. More details about this content will be released at a later time.

Minecraft: Wii U Edition will feature off-TV play, so players can keep their games going on the screen of the Wii U GamePad controller if another family member wants to watch something else on TV. The game also comes with some of the most popular current Minecraft add-on content packs including:

  • Battle & Beasts Skin Pack
  • Battle & Beasts 2 Skin Pack
  • Natural Texture Pack
  • City Texture Pack
  • Fantasy Texture Pack
  • Festive Mash-up Pack

 

In addition to the content that comes with the game, players will also be able to expand their experience with 16 additional add-on packs available for purchase within the Nintendo eShop at launch:

  1. Festive Skin Pack
  2. The Simpsons Skin Pack
  3. Doctor Who Skins Volume 1
  4. Doctor Who Skins Volume 2
  5. Star Wars Classic Skin Pack
  6. Star Wars Rebels Skin Pack
  7. Star Wars Prequel Skin Pack
  8. Mass Effect Mash-up Pack
  9. Skyrim Mash-up Pack
  10. Plastic Texture Pack
  11. Candy Texture Pack
  12. Cartoon Texture Pack
  13. Steampunk Texture Pack
  14. Pattern Texture Pack
  15. Greek Mythology Mash-up Pack
  16. Halloween 2015 Mash-up Pack

More add-on packs will also be available for the game in the future.

Additional Links:

Nintendo Australia website: http://www.nintendo.com.au  Nintendo Australia Twitter: https://twitter.com/NintendoAUNZ Nintendo Australia Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NintendoAUNZ Nintendo AU on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/nintendoau


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