'Just like the first release of Minecraft all those years ago, this version will develop and evolve over time with the help of your feedback,' reads a blog on the Mojang website. Indeed, like Windows 10 itself, it seems Microsoft is planning rolling updates for Minecraft. Players who buy the game during its beta phase will get to keep the game when it comes out of beta and continue to receive all the updates. How to make Minecraft faster and less annoyingįor everyone else, the game will costs $10 whilst it remains in beta. However, current owners of the PC version of Minecraft will be given the Windows 10 Edition for free. It seems the new version - dubbed Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition Beta - will have more in common with the Pocket Edition of the game than the full-blown desktop version.

Microsoft will launch Minecraft into the Windows Store on July 29 - the same day as Windows 10 is released.

Despite having completed the purchase of Minecraft owner Mojang last November, the popular building-brick game has yet to appear in the Windows Store or on Microsoft's mobiles. If making it a free upgrade wasn't enough to convince people to shift to Windows 10, Microsoft's offering 20 million gamers another incentive: it's bringing Minecraft to the Windows Store.

Windows 10 edition beta