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'Facebook creeps me out'

Developer brought in $128m during 2013

Minecraft creator Markus Persson is in discussion with Warner Bros over a Minecraft movie, he has announced. The Mojang boss made the reveal in a Twitter post on Thursday: "Someone is trying leak the fact that we’re working with Warner Brothers on a potential Minecraft Movie. I wanted to be …

Film company said to have bought rights to take game to the big screen

14.3 million PC copies of the runaway brick-builder have been paid-for

Mojang has promised some significant new functionality for the mobile version of its hit title. Minecraft Pocket Edition will soon be updated to offer larger-scale worlds more in line with what users of the PC and console versions are accustomed to. We’re working on restructuring a lot of code to …

Minecraft has reached new sales heights again this week, thanks to another milestone for the original version on Windows and Mac. Creator Markus Persson, better known as Notch, announced on Twitter that the unstoppable indie title had reached 14m sold on PC. The game has now sold (conservatively) more than …

Mojang's world-building hit continues selling on new platform

Minecraft has already sold 1m copies on PS3, following its launch on PlayStation Network in December. As part of Mojang’s announcement, the developer/publisher offered that the hot start "has to be some kind of record on PSN." Though that’s not yet official. The indie hit easily achieved the milestone in …

Mojang's popular world-building hit coming to PlayStation Store tomorrow in North America and Europe a day later