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Global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, Kaspersky revealed that cybercriminals launched more than 7 million attacks on children and exploited popular game titles last year. These include phishing pages mimicking global titles such as Roblox, Minecraft, Fortnite and Apex Legends.

As young working adults, playing video games is not something that we can do on-the-go most of the time due to other activities. So in honour of Video Games Day (Google it), we decided to look back at the video games that we finally managed to play throughout the past few months. From old ones to recently released, here are the best (and worst) games that we've played while staying at home.

Minecraft Dungeons, which is a top-down Action RPG Dungeon Crawler by Mojang, Xbox Games Studio, and Double Eleven is now officially on the Microsoft Store starting from the price of RM78. There’s also the Minecraft Dungeons Hero Edition where you can get additional content such as a Hero Cape, two player skins, a chicken pet, as well as downloadable content as soon as they are available at RM116. 

If there's one thing we learned in recent weeks, it's that the effect of the coronavirus pandemic can sometimes result in fun happenings. For example, last week there was news of a professor in China conducting online lessons using anime avatars. Now, we have news of students hosting their own graduation ceremony in Minecraft.

If you like Minecraft and AR games like Pokemon Go, you should try out Minecraft Earth. First announced earlier this year, the early access of the mobile augmented reality game is now available in Malaysia for Android and iOS devices.

Here's a feature many Sony PS4 Minecraft players have been waiting for: Cross-platform play. With the imminent launch of Minecraft Bedrock for the PS4 on 10th December 2019, you will soon be able to play Minecraft with your other friends who are using an Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, or a Windows 10 PC.

Remember when Mojang unveiled their new upcoming game called the Minecraft: Dungeons, during MineCon 2018 last year? Well, it seems that Mojang has released an official trailer for their upcoming game. Based on the trailer, Minecraft: Dungeons is due to be released somewhere around April 2020 next year.

Initially available on selected iOS devices, Minecraft Earth beta is now on on Google’s Android operating system. The only requirement to play the game, is that you must have a smartphone running Android 7 or newer as well as AR capabilities. 

On 26 November 2016, Cyberview Sdn Bhd has brought forth the first national Minecraft tournament for young talents called GEM PLAY. Under the Cyberview Living Lab Talent initiative, over 150 participants aged between 8 to 16 years old have joined the tournament and the winner of the singles tournament ‘GEM Island’ went home with RM2300 while total prize money for team-based ‘GEM Castle’ was RM4800.