It’s truly the end of an era. Long before it was a worldwide cultural phenomenon, Minecraft was a simple, insanely fun world-building game conceived and created by one man: Markus Persson, lovingly ...

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Long-time Minecraft fans will instantly recognize the name Markus “Notch” Persson, the game’s original creator who has since sold its IP to Microsoft. While that marked the end of Notch’s involvement ...

Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson has deleted his Twitter account after getting into a disagreement with gaming journalist Mark Brown, better known for the YouTube channel Game Maker's Toolkit.

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 ...

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 ...

The survival of online games has been a hot topic of conversation over the last week, following the shutdown of online servers and discontinuation of support for several different titles. And it looks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Update: Markus "Notch" Persson has further detailed his thoughts on the Oculus/Facebook partnership in a passionate blog post. More like this Minecraft - Official Herdcraft April Fools Update Trailer ...

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: ...