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Titled "Arcade NEXT", the lineup includes Fable Heroes, Trials Evolution and Minecraft.

Microsoft is following up House Party 2012 and warming up to this year's Summer of Arcade with a new promotion called Arcade NEXT. The promotion will start on April 18, 2012 and will include some "important" Xbox Live Arcade titles. These games will be the first Arcade titles to be eligible for the new Achievement rules.

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The creator of the hottest indie game around names a new lead developer.

It’s been a big year for indie PC darling Minecraft and Mojang, the developer. The game is getting a console port to the 360 with Kinect support. Mojang won an interim injunction against Zenimax over the name of their next project, Scrolls. Oh, and Minecraft actually came out recently. Yes, for Markus “Notch” Persson, things are going well. With Minecraft already a multimillion seller, it’s only natural that Notch would step aside and put someone else in charge of the runaway hit that already has its own convention. Wait, what?

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And the game isn't even out of beta yet!

Minecraft technically doesn’t come out for another couple of weeks, but that hasn’t kept it from becoming one of the biggest success stories in the history of PC game development. Over the weekend, Markus “Notch” Persson announced on his Twitter account that the beta version of Minecraft has passed the 4 million mark in sales.

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Notch celebrates via Twitter.

This past August, it was reported that Mojang, the company behind indie smash sensation Minecraft, was being sued by Zenimax, the parent company of Bethesda. The lawsuit was filed over the name of Mojang’s upcoming game, titled “Scrolls”, which Zenimax claims is too close to their trademark for The Elder Scrolls series. Normally, any story where a huge company sues a much smaller one ends in the case being thrown out or the smaller company simply caving in under mounting legal fees, but this time, it looks as if the little guy has won, at least for now.

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