World-building title amasses more than 1.2 million sales during Christmas week alone
Read More »Minecraft XBLA hits 5m copies sold
Mojang has revealed the latest milestone for its multi-platform hit Minecraft, announcing that the Xbox 360 Edition has reached 5m sales. Mojang’s Daniel Kaplan shared the info on Twitter, adding that the number was reached on the final day of 2012. The word comes just days after the company announced …
Read More »Minecraft moves over 450,000 units on Christmas day
Mojang’s multi-platform cash cow Minecraft has once again flexed its muscle. The indie game with its own convention moved 453,000 units on December 25th. Creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson took to twitter to share the news; initially claiming the figure was collected on December 24th, and then later correcting the date …
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Minecraft creator Markus Persson and entrepreneur Mark Cuban contribute $500,000 to EFF
Read More »Minecraft documentary to premiere on Xbox Live
2 Player Productions’ upcoming documentary Minecraft: The Story of Mojang will premiere this weekend on Xbox Live. Major Nelson has announced Gold members in the US, UK, Ireland, Belgium, Portugal, France, Austria, Sweden, and Finland can catch the film in full on Saturday, December 22nd at 8 PM Eastern in …
Read More »Minecraft Pocket Edition shifts five million
Total sales of hit world-building title surpass 17.5 million
Read More »Minecraft Pocket Edition sales hit 5m, franchise closing in on 20m mark
Minecraft Pocket Edition is selling well, really well. In fact, it appears the game is selling on par with its PC and XBLA counterparts. Mojang’s Johan Bernhardsson revealed earlier today the game had reached 5m sales. The mobile version of Mojang’s title initially launched in November of 2011, during the …
Read More »Minecraft 360 edition averaging 50,000 sales a week
It looks as if the Xbox 360 edition of Minecraft has a good chance of running down its PC predecessor in terms of sales. Gamasutra reports the XBLA version is still selling between 40,000 and 60,000 copies a week just over half a year from launch. As of the end …
Read More »Minecraft sells 4.5m on XBLA
Mojang's hit showing no signs of slowed sales
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