If you prefer the crafting and building aspect of Minecraft over the dull mining and digging bits, this glitch will make your life a lot easier. With just a couple of easy steps you can turn 3 diamonds or gold or iron ingots into 9 diamonds or ingots and you can repeat the process as many times as you want. Our guide tells you exactly how it is done.

Minecraft XBLA Infinite Diamond, Gold, and Iron

A lot of the fun of Minecraft is figuring things out on your own, but there are still lots of things that trip up new players even when they think they have it all worked out. This is all old news for PC players who have been addicted to Minecraft for a couple of years now, but it is all new and fresh for XBLA newbies. We have some tips and tricks that should help new players of Minecraft XBLA get their footing a little easier.

Minecraft XBLA Tips And Tricks

The Verge has an article stating that Microsoft is currently testing a modified version of Internet Explorer 9 for Xbox 360 that has been tuned to use optional Kinect motion and voice controls along with normal controller (and hopefully chatpad) support. It will let you access the full Internet - not a mobile or watered down version. This is still currently a rumor, but The Verge has been pretty spot on with Microsoft rumors of late, so we're inclined to believe it. More details will almost certainly be revealed at E3 coming up in June.

Read the full report at The Verge.

We're not sure if we really need an Internet browser on our Xbox 360 - the browsers on the PS3 and Wii are pretty awful so our expectations aren't exactly high - but if anyone can make a browser actually work on a console Microsoft should be able to do it.

Announced at E3 2011, Minecraft for Xbox Live Arcade is finally here. Minecraft XBLA is pretty much a streamlined version of the PC game with far easier crafting and maybe a little better controls (yeah, I said it). The promised Kinect support didn't make it for launch, but it will be updated in eventually. All in all, though, Minecraft XBLA is just as good and just as fun as it is on the PC, and if you have somehow managed to avoid the Minecraft hype until now, the XBLA version is definitely worth a look. See our full review for more details

Minecraft Review (XBLA)

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