Opposable Thumbs / Gaming & Entertainment  Minecraft creator
announces hardcore space simulator as next project  The next
game from Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson will be a
space …  This enigmatic title is only one of many mysteries in
the announcement of the next game from Mojang, the developer of
Minecraft.  The well-known creator of the PC hit Minecraft,
Markus "Notch" Persson, announced today that his next game
project will be an ambitious multiplayer space travel simulation
game that sounds somewhat similar to EVE Online.  The game is
titled 0x10C, though Persson is not quite ready to explain to
anyone how to pronounce that. According to Persson, the name is
kind of a riddle, though he did hint at the answer by asking via
Twitter, "What happens if you try to read a 64 bit
representation of 1 in a 16 bit system, but you get the
endianness wrong?"  The reference to 16-bit computers is a tie-
in to one of the major themes of the game, which starts in an
alternate universe version of the year 1988,