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 ...

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Multiple messages referencing the original creator of Minecraft have been removed from the game in its latest update. While Markus 'Notch' Persson is still featured in the game's credits, his name has ...

"I did not wish for my work to be used against people." ...

Markus Persson, the billionaire creator of Minecraft, tells FORBES why he sold independent gaming company for $2.5 billion to Microsoft in an exclusive interview.

What just happened? With over 154 million copies sold across all platforms, Minecraft is one of the most popular games of all time---and it's still going strong. The latest update to the sandbox ...

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 ...

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 ...