{"id":54133,"date":"2013-10-25T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T15:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=54133"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:04:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:04:10","slug":"the-softonic-minute-blackberry-messenger-plants-vs-zombies-os-x-and-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-softonic-minute-blackberry-messenger-plants-vs-zombies-os-x-and-minecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Softonic Minute: BlackBerry Messenger, Plants vs. Zombies, OS X and Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Plants vs. Zombies 2<\/strong> lands on Android, Mac users get a free update to <strong>OS X Mavericks<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/minecraft.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Minecraft<\/strong> <\/a>version 1.7.1 is released, and <strong>BBM<\/strong> finally arrives for iOS and Android. Check out this week&#8217;s hottest software news on The Softonic Minute.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<div>Default player<\/div>\n<p><!--\nBy use of this code snippet, I agree to the Brightcove Publisher T and C\nfound at https:\/\/accounts.brightcove.com\/en\/terms-and-conditions\/.\n--><\/p>\n<p><object><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!--\nThis script tag will cause the Brightcove Players defined above it to be created as soon\nas the line is read by the browser. If you wish to have the player instantiated only after\nthe rest of the HTML is processed and the page load is complete, remove the line.\n--><br \/>\nbrightcove.createExperiences();<\/p>\n<p><!-- End of Brightcove Player --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/plants-vs-zombies-2-released-on-android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Plants vs. Zombies 2 comes to Android<\/strong><\/a>. As expected, the war continues to rage between plants and zombies with the sequel to the title game now available for Android. Plants vs. Zombies 2 is a freemium game, meaning that basic content is free, but there\u2019s an option to pay for additional content. <a href=\"http:\/\/plants-vs-zombies-2.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download Plants vs. Zombies 2\u00a0for Android<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/mavericks-out-today-for-free\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Free update to OS X Mavericks<\/strong><\/a>. Apple has surprised Mac owners by releasing Mavericks, the latest version of OS X, for free! But the free update to its operating system isn&#8217;t the only surprise from Apple. Both iLife and iWork will now come free with new iOS devices. Now that the public have ever more free alternatives to Office, we&#8217;ll see how Microsoft reacts to this news. <a href=\"http:\/\/os-x-10-9-mavericks.en.softonic.com\/mac\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Download OS X Mavericks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/minecraft-major-update-1-7-1-coming-friday\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Minecraft gets a big update<\/a><\/strong>. Minecraft fans, prepare yourselves: version 1.7.1. has arrived. What&#8217;s new? Some highlights include bigger worlds with more objects, new types of plants, and an achievement system, among many others. The update also addresses 80 bugs in the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/blackberry-messenger-downloaded-over-10-million-times\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>BBM for Android and iPhone now available<\/strong><\/a>. BlackBerry has finally launched its famous messaging app across multiple platforms, and so far, it\u2019s been a great success! BBM was downloaded roughly 10 million times in its first 24 hours of availability, although the true success of BlackBerry Messenger is yet to be confirmed: we&#8217;ll have to wait and see if the 10 million people who download BBM will actually use it on a regular basis. If you&#8217;re not one of those 10 million people, you can download BBM for <a href=\"http:\/\/blackberry-messenger.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>iOS<\/strong><\/a> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blackberry-messenger.en.softonic.com\/android\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Android<\/a> <\/strong><strong>now.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Check out all of our past Softonic Minutes <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/t\/softonic-minute\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants vs. Zombies 2 lands on Android, Mac users get a free update to OS X Mavericks, Minecraft version 1.7.1 is released, and BBM finally arrives for iOS and Android. Check out this week&#8217;s hottest software news on The Softonic Minute. Default player brightcove.createExperiences(); Plants vs. Zombies 2 comes to Android. As expected, the war &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-softonic-minute-blackberry-messenger-plants-vs-zombies-os-x-and-minecraft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Softonic Minute: BlackBerry Messenger, Plants vs. Zombies, OS X and Minecraft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2328],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-54133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionminecraft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331917,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54133\/revisions\/331917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54133"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=54133"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=54133"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=54133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}