Rather, Minecraft Story Mode is squarely focused at a more general, family audience, offering a gentle adventure where the most pressing choice is which of your in-game friends to disappoint.

Minecraft: Story Mode will release on October 13th for Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360, and Xbox One. The mobile version of the game for Android and iOS will come two days later, on October 15th.

Episode 1 of Minecraft: Story Mode feels more like Telltale’s The Walking Dead than you might guess. You’ll make tough choices about which members of your group stay and which go, mediate ...

But Minecraft? That's the gambit that Telltale is undertaking with "Minecraft Story Mode Episode 1: Order of the Stone." Surprisingly, Telltale's episodic take on Minecraft, well, actually works.

A fabulously popular open-world construction game has just made contact with the talented writers at Telltale Games, and the result is Minecraft: Story Mode.The original Minecraft was created by ...