For many developers, the allure of creating a hit application and raking in lots of money is enough to justify long hours and months, if not years, of thankless work spent hunched over a computer and ...

‘The problem with getting everything, is you run out of reasons to keep trying’: Markus ‘Notch’ Persson in 2011 - EMMA JOHANSSON / DN / SCANPIX There are two primary modes in Minecraft, the wilfully ...

Is it tough being a billionaire? Minecraft creator Markus Persson recently seemed to suggest he isn’t fully enjoying his financial freedom. A series of Tweets that Persson sent out caught the ...

On Thursday morning, Markus Persson, the creator of the first-person video game Minecraft, sent out a tweet that never really needed to exist in the first place. “It’s ok to be white,” the 38-year-old ...

When Minecraft creator Markus Persson, lovingly called Notch in the gaming community, announced he was leaving Mojang in the wake of Microsoft's $2.5 billion acquisition of the Swedish game studio, ...

The gaming sensation Minecraft from the mind of Markus Persson has taken a big step toward reaching the big screen with Warner Bros. Entertainment snapping up the film rights. As first reported by ...

It’s 7 pm on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-storey office, sipping the speedball of alcoholic beverages, a vodka Red Bull. Three hours ago he committed to ...

Goldberg and Larsson chronicle the rise of Swedish video game developer Markus Persson from a shy kid glued to his legendary status as creator of the immensely popular Minecraft. They trace Persson's ...

As we start the week holding our stomachs, worried about whether our 401(k) plans are safe from these rocky markets, let’s spend a few moments talking about money. Many of us spend our lives trying to ...

Markus Persson, perhaps better known as 'Notch', is a Swedish developer with an eclectic CV: Wurm Online, Luxor, Funny Farm... Oh, and Minecraft, the construction/survival indie game that became a ...

When Minecraft founder Markus Persson bought his $70 million mansion in Beverly Hills, California, he tweeted out a picture of his feet perched on a table in the gleaming white lounge. That picture ...