2019 has had a few constants on the internet so far: Old Town Road, Keanu Reeves, Area 51, a general sense of unease about our impending ecological disaster. Surprisingly, a 10-year-old video game has also joined the mix Minecraft, the iconic block builder.
Minecraft, it should be noted, has quietly been dominating video games this entire time: By Mojangs count back in 2018, over 91 million unique players log in every month across all platforms. (Fortnite, the hottest visible game of 2018, had 78 million unique players during an all-time high.) But things are changing in 2019. Minecrafts dominance is no longer out of sight from the mainstream. For one thing, it is picking back up on Google searches.
Source: N4G PC Minecraft is having a big comeback in 2019