Minecraft is more in spirit of Lego than the Funcom game, but given that Minecraft already has the building aspect bagged (even collaborating with Lego on their boxed sets) I suppose all that's left for Funcom is to focus more on the gaming side.
If you like to tinker especially on the computing side (or have kids) I suggest taking a look at Raspberry Pi (http://www.raspberrypi.org/about).