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Hytale’s messy, miraculous early-access arrival has done something rare in modern gaming: it forced a serious conversation about complacency in the b-sandbox genre and, more pointedly, about whether Mojang’s Minecraft — the incumbent that many treat as untouchable — has rested for too long...

When Mojang’s chief creative officer Jens “Jeb” Bergensten described Hypixel Studios’ newly released sandbox RPG Hytale as “very polished” but said the feeling he got was that he’d “rather just play Minecraft,” he did more than offer a casual opinion — he crystallized the awkward, high-stakes...