Consumer spending boosted by popularity of Minecraft movie as families took advantage of school holidays
AIB’s latest spending tracker points to positive overall spend
Minecraft
Minecraft movie hurls Irish cinemas into world of chaos and flying popcorn
Box-office smash has led to boisterous audience antics
A Minecraft Movie: Cinemas warn audiences over ‘chicken jockey’ TikTok trend
Minecraft film has proved successful at the box office, but not without disruption from audiences
A Minecraft Movie director Jared Hess: ‘On a big movie there’s so much to do, so much to pull off. You’re always dry-heaving’
Hess, the film-maker behind the 2004 comedy Napoleon Dynamite, on his love of Minecraft, working with Jack Black and making a big budget film
A Minecraft Movie review: Jason Momoa and Jack Black have a ball in a proudly silly family adventure
There’s plenty here for fans of Minecraft to recognise and enjoy
How Minecraft became a cultural phenomenon: ‘I have hundreds of worlds. When I get sick of one I just start again’
The most popular video game of all time is about to become a Hollywood movie starring Jack Black
Prodigy Learning joins forces with Minecraft Education to develop new game-based learning products
Move is a potentially lucrative one for Irish-headquartered Prodigy Learning, expanding its market reach significantly
Minecraft and me: The Irish writer, the €2.5bn deal, and the contract he never signed
Julian Gough wrote the End Poem for the best-selling video game but never signed a contract
Minecraft commentator Technoblade who built large following on YouTube dies after cancer diagnosis
More than 11 million subscribers watched screen recordings of Technoblade’s Minecraft gameplay as he provided commentary off-camera
Oliver Callan: Society as it really is on the Late Late Toy Show
The public sector, left wing, emigrants, farmers and elite all play their parts
A time travel project for Irish children using Minecraft
MindRising 2016 wants young people to develop digital stories about Ireland’s past and future
Weblog: Spotify wants your contacts and photos
The music streaming service is updating the privacy policy in its terms and conditions
An Irishwoman’s Diary on how Minecraft heroes bridged the Atlantic
‘I heard Irish accents coming from our iPad’
Microsoft weighing deal to acquire maker of ‘Minecraft’
Computing giants wants popular game available on family of devices
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