Since its launch in 2009 there hasn't been a 'small' year for Minecraft. But 2014 draws a sharp spike on the activity graphs thanks to its enormity. This year was massive for Mojang and Minecraft: a ...

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Telltale Games has announced on its blog that it’s working with Minecraft developer Mojang to create a series of games set in the world of the blocky hit franchise. With Minecraft, Telltale doesn’t ...

According to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, the company actually had a chance to buy Minecraft before 2014 but didn't end up taking it. In 2014, Microsoft bought Minecraft and its developer, Mojang, for ...

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Minecraft was the second most-searched query on YouTube, according to Google. Losing out only to ‘Music’, Minecraft topped ‘Movies’, ‘Frozen’, ‘Eminem’, and even ‘PewDiePie’ on its way to the number ...

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If you want to build something great in Minecraft, you do it one block at a time. For example, developer Mojang sold one copy of Minecraft at a time — and now it has millions of players. The studio ...

Apple today shared cumulative lists of the best performing apps in the App Store across 2014 with various media sites and on iTunes, highlighting the iPad Top Paid, iPad Top Free, iPhone Top Paid, and ...

Markus "Notch" Persson recently set a new record, this one outside of the gaming community: The Minecraft creator just bought a sprawling mansion in Beverly Hills, California, for $70 million. It is ...

Mojang's breakout hit Minecraft took second place in a Google-issued list of the most popular YouTube search queries of 2014, ranking immediately behind the word "music" in terms of search frequency.