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Who better to make a true rival to the behemoth that is Minecraft than the developer that created it in the first place? For a short while, this seemed like a genuine possibility, as Markus 'Notch' ...

This is the dream, right? A game designer and coder, working completely alone and outside of a commercial context, hits on a concept that sets the world alight. It becomes a culture-saturating ...

This statement reassured fans that the new game would offer the creativity and open-ended exploration that made Minecraft so beloved, while also carving its own identity. Notch’s announcement has ...

Mojang Studios was sold to Microsoft in 2014 for $2 billion. As a result, Notch left the company that same year and pursued other interests. Despite helping initiate the sale, Notch felt like a ...

Markus Persson, also known as “Notch,” is the developer and creator of Minecraft. The open-world sandbox game focuses on building, crafting, and mining within a randomly generated virtual world, and ...

When Notch’s studio, Mojang, announced that as Aug. 1 it would be enforcing the End User License Agreement (EULA) for Minecraft, the fear was that third parties who charge for items on their custom ...

A few days later, he responded to a question, saying he “basically announced Minecraft 2.” But it’s not that simple. Persson sold the rights to Minecraft and his company to Microsoft, and Minecraft ...