Xbox 360 Minecraft players will be able to transfer their saved games to the upcoming Minecraft: Xbox One Edition.

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Phil Spencer, Microsoft's new head of Xbox tweeted , "After months of teaming up with Mojang, we can confirm that Minecraft X360 Edition will save transfer to Xbox One Edition...more news soon!" Minecraft: Xbox One Edition is expected to be a larger game with more to explore than the last-generation version.Microsoft announced Minecraft: Xbox One Edition during last year's E3. The Xbox 360 version passed 12 million in sales at the beginning of this month. A PlayStation 4 version is also expected, though no official release date has been announced for either version. Mojang's Owen Hill said in the PlayStation Blog comments section that the developer plans to also allow saves on Minecraft's PlayStation 3 version to transfer to the PlayStation 4.

Dustin J. Seibert is a freelance writer covering videogames. Time to (finally) knock out Infamous: Second Son this weekend. Follow him on Twitter at @Justice2K