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Mojang's hit showing no signs of slowed sales
Read More »Notch: I worry about Mojang growing
Minecraft creator doesn't want studio to focus on 'super polished' games as they 'require larger teams'
Read More »MW3 loses Xbox Live throne to Minecraft
Port of Mojang's block buster beats blockbuster shooter for number of unique users
Read More »Minecraft XBLA averaging 27,000 sales a day
Four million copies of Xbox 360 version sold in five months
Read More »Notch refuses Windows 8 certification
Minecraft developer would rather 'the game not run on Windows 8 at all than play along'
Read More »Persson blocks Minecraft’s Windows 8 certification
Minecraft creator Markus Notch” Persson had made a public declaration of opposition to Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform. Microsoft has been certifying software since the days of Windows XP. Certification is supposed to offer the user a certain quality benchmark and requires software to meet a number of technical requirements. However, …
Read More »Minecraft PC passes seven million sales
Wildly popular indie game reaches another milestone in just three months
Read More »Mojang profits more than double
Minecraft developer Mojang is on course to make a profit of more than €14m in its second year. The studio made €7.2m last year, and is confident the hugely popular building game will continue to be its main source of revenue, according to MCV Nordic. Last year, more than three …
Read More »Oculus Rift kickstarter flies past $400k
Virtual reality goggles receives $10,000 backing from Notch
Read More »Notch is concerned by Steam’s PC dominance
Have you ever noticed that Minecraft isn’t on Steam? Well, it isn’t. Which is odd as Steam is the biggest digital PC distributor and Minecraft is one of the PC’s biggest success stories. The reason, it transpires, is that the game’s creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson remains concerned about Steam’s grip …
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