Mojang to release Cobalt on Friday, if all goes to plan

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Mojang have told Edge that they're hoping to publish their first third party game, Cobalt this Friday, if all goes to plan.

Cobalt is a quirky robot platformer from Oxeye Game Studio. Mojang and Oxeye are working together to give it some extra polish before Friday. Like Minecraft, it will be released as an alpha and then regularly updated until it's done.

Mojang are also looking to implement their " One Account to Rule Them All " system before the Friday deadline. This will let players log into Minecraft, Cobalt and eventually Scrolls with one universal login.

Mojang say that getting Cobalt into shape has been a collaborative effort, with Oxeye calling Cobalt "more of a team effort than the usual developer-publisher combo." Manneh told Edge that "culture-wise it's a very good fit with Mojang. They like to work in the same way we do, and when we present ideas to each other we're very much in sync. It's very easy to work with them."

We'll find out how well the partnership has worked when Cobalt (hopefully) sees the light of day on Friday. For more details, and videos of Cobalts robots duelling it out in bullet-time, check out the Cobalt site .

Tom Senior
Tom Senior

Part of the UK team, Tom was with PC Gamer at the very beginning of the website's launch—first as a news writer, and then as online editor until his departure in 2020. His specialties are strategy games, action RPGs, hack ‘n slash games, digital card games… basically anything that he can fit on a hard drive. His final boss form is Deckard Cain.