'Minecraft: Education Edition' launches in early access

[Joystiq]

A new version of Minecraft developed for the classroom is

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. Minecraft: Education Edition was announced

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alongside Microsoft's acquisition of

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, a team that had already been tweaking the game for teachers. The replacement is available for free this summer before a per-student pricing model is introduced for the academic year. As a small thank you, Microsoft has promised existing MinecraftEdu customers a year of free access to Education Edition -- presumably that will kick in once the early access trial wraps up.

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