Minecraft LIVE Returns This Saturday, Three Days Before Dungeons II Launches
Mojang and Xbox confirmed Minecraft LIVE returns Saturday at 10 AM PT, spotlighting Minecraft Dungeons II three days before its September 29 launch on five platforms.
Mojang Studios and Xbox confirmed on September 24 that Minecraft LIVE returns this Saturday, September 26, with Minecraft Dungeons II holding the spotlight three days before its own launch. The announcement landed as a short post on Xbox Wire, but the timing tells the real story: Mojang's biggest annual showcase is arriving right as its first new Dungeons game in more than five years reaches its final countdown.
When and Where to Watch
Minecraft LIVE begins at 10 AM PT (1 PM ET, 7 PM CEST) on September 26. Mojang is streaming the show free on the official Minecraft YouTube channel, on Twitch, and through the event hub at minecraft.net/live, with no account or sign-up required. Past editions of Minecraft LIVE have run between roughly thirty minutes and an hour depending on how much the studio has to share, and the broadcast typically stays archived on YouTube afterward for anyone who misses the live window. Xbox Wire's own writeup, credited to editor-in-chief Joe Skrebels, keeps things brief and points readers straight to the stream rather than pre-announcing a segment list.
Minecraft Dungeons II Takes Center Stage
The key art Xbox published alongside Saturday's announcement leans directly on Minecraft Dungeons II, which launches September 29. The sequel casts players as William, a resurrected soldier of Napoleon's Grande Armée who fights through the Overworld with both period weaponry and supernatural powers, uncovering fresh dungeons and mysterious new threats along the way. As in the original Dungeons, players will gear up with weapons, armor, artifacts, and talismans looted along the run, and the sequel adds full online and couch co-op for up to four players, so a full squad can push through the harder encounters together.
Release-Day Details
Minecraft Dungeons II arrives on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and Switch 2, and PC through Steam and the Microsoft Store, with cross-play connecting every version at once. The standard edition is $29.99, while a $49.99 Deluxe Edition bundles both planned DLC packs alongside a Soul cape, a Blub pet, and four extra hero skins. The game is included day one with Xbox Game Pass and supports Xbox Play Anywhere, and anyone who pre-orders before September 28 at 12 PM PDT gets two additional hero skins, a Twisted cape, and a Twisted chicken pet, while supplies last.
Building Toward Saturday
Mojang teased the date days ahead of the Xbox Wire post: the official Minecraft account announced on September 21 that Minecraft LIVE would return on the 26th, tying the reveal to a Corrupted Creeper Cape reward for Dungeons II unlockable through Twitch Drops and TikTok notifications. Mojang Studios developed the sequel alongside Double Eleven under publisher Xbox Game Studios, the same alignment that first revealed Minecraft Dungeons II at Minecraft LIVE back in March, before June's gameplay reveal locked in the September 29 date.
What's Still Unconfirmed
Fan translations of a promotional post on Minecraft's WeChat channel have circulated claims that Saturday's broadcast will also touch on a Creator Studio Program, a physical Minecraft theme park, and new ice cave biomes for the base game. None of that has been confirmed on Mojang's English-language channels as of this writing, and it should be treated as rumor sourced from an unofficial translation rather than a confirmed part of the lineup. What Mojang has put its name to directly is the date, the time, and Minecraft Dungeons II's place at the center of the show.
With the sequel's launch just three days out, Saturday's stream is shaping up as Mojang's last major checkpoint before players can pick up the pickaxe — or, this time, the sword — for themselves. Anyone weighing a pre-order has until Monday to decide before the early bonuses disappear.
The next chapter of Minecraft awaits. Find out where our adventure takes us next when #MinecraftLIVE returns on September 26! Celebrate your victory and unlock the Corrupted Creeper Cape for #DungeonsII in your Twitch Inventory or TikTok notifications NOW.
— Minecraft (@Minecraft) · September 21, 2026 on X
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