Well, I opened the launcher and saw that a new update, 1.8, was released. I clicked on play to start the game and it started updating. I believe that it updated, but once Minecraft was loading, the launcher re-opened stating that the game crashed.

I expected Minecraft to update and function correctly, as it has with previous updates.

Instead, the game crashes, and now it is totally unplayable...
Steps to Reproduce:

1. Double click on Minecraft.exe file to start up the laucher.
2. Click on the Play button
3. Minecraft loads for a few seconds, then crashes, following with a report