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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 ...

Yesterday, Markus 'Markus "Notch" Persson' Persson responded cryptically to Minecraft's milestone shattering eight millionth sale, simply commenting with the following string of digits and letters ...

It can be easy to get lost in fractals – those never-ending complex patterns that loop over and over again – and it's even easier to get totally immersed into one with a VR headset on. Minecraft ...

Markus "Notch" Persson's next big game is stuck. Freed from the necessity of hit-driven game releases, powered by the popularity of Minecraft's tens of millions of fans, Persson has the ability to not ...

The man responsible for Minecraft was holding a grudge against Facebook and Oculus VR, but it looks like his resolve is waning. Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson said on Twitter that he is no ...

Notch and the other founders of Mojang are selling their studio and Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. In a blog post announcing the sale, Mojang's Owen Hill broke down the reasons for the sale, ...

It looks as if the Facebook and Oculus deal already has its first casualty. Minecraft mastermind Markus "Notch" Persson has said that he'll no longer be developing his game for the Rift after ...

Minecraft creator Markus Persson has said he “basically announced Minecraft 2” after polling his social media followers on what game they’d like him to make next. Two options were listed in the poll: ...

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Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has seemingly announced that he intends to start working on Minecraft 2 in a post on social media. In typical Notch style, he has been very active and saying a ...

Code.org recently launched a Star Wars-themed “Hour of Code” tutorial, and today they’re geeking it up a notch: a brand-new program is based in the world of Minecraft. The tutorial is the result of a ...