Basically this:

100% deserved the game plays AMAZING on the 360.

You know people have been critical of MS's 2012 exclusive lineup but when you look at the incredible content that's released on XBLA already this year its actually been quite a good lineup.

Barozi said: please don't laugh:

That reminds me of one of the enterences in Halo 3? I think.  Yeah.  The overall look, not the actual form or function.

What I'm specifically referring to is at one point you come out of a tunnel, onto a snow covered field and the Flood start landing in pods and attack you.  The whole way up the ramparts, you're fighting off Flood that keep dropping in via pods, then eventually you have to hold the enterance until the door is opened. 

Adinnieken said: Barozi said: please don't laugh: That reminds me of one of the enterences in Halo 3? I think.  Yeah.  The overall look, not the actual form or function. What I'm specifically referring to is at one point you come out of a tunnel, onto a snow covered field and the Flood start landing in pods and attack you.  The whole way up the ramparts, you're fighting off Flood that keep dropping in via pods, then eventually you have to hold the enterance until the door is opened.

Ohh! Diamonds!

Small improvements made though that picture is already outdated (added some stone stairs in front of the castle and currently building a church right next to it)

Also what's not in the pic is a small garden like area behind the castle. The yard insinde Durham Cathedral inspired me to do that. Though it's not on ground level. Just like the church it's only accessible through the second floor of the castle.

Ahh Now who's copying who :p, much improved true. We should start an official MC 360 thread tbh! I can see this game doing very well!

already ~500k in the leaderboards which counts only people playing on normal.

XBLAFANS

Polytron, following up on Mojang’s reporting of Minecraft figures based off of Xbox Live leaderboards, tapped Microsoft on the shoulder and questioned them as to whether or not the leaderboards are a legitimate gauge for sales numbers. As it turns out, just as the Fez developer had earlier alleged, they are not. “Hey so, Microsoft got back to us about sale[s] figures,” the studio tweeted. “Turns out the leaderboards ARE inaccurate!”

Quickly following that news was another statement by the dev elucidating that Microsoft showed no favoritism towards Mojang in terms of handing out sales data. But that doesn’t mean the studio believes the entire playing field is even. Earlier, Polytron expressed its discontent over Minecraft being granted the ability to receive free post-release content. Sticking to its guns, Polytron stated that favoritism was shown by the publisher in the way of “the free updates.”

Still, Poly, in a tweet directed at the media, called upon caps lock to underscore its belief that Microsoft’s actions were “NOT A SCANDAL.” It should also be noted that Polytron extended public congratulations to Markus Persson for having a successful launch on XBLA. Further details can be found in the primary story below.

http://www.xblafans.com/minecraft-turns-quick-profit-polytron-questions-ms-policies-47984.html

How does Minecraft breaking XBLA reccords show the power of XBLA?

It just shows the power of Minecraft 

I mean how well MS has advertised Minecraft for the Xbox 360 and the large audience availabe in XBL as compared to other platforms (excluding PC)

I for one has MC for PC and can run it at an excess of 140fps. But I still made my first purchase in XBLA. With Minecraft 360