“It’s not about the money. It’s about my sanity.” That’s how Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson closed a blog post detailing his decision to leave his studio, Mojang, after selling it to ...

Markus “Notch” Persson and Jens “Jeb” Bergensten pose with the Oculus Rift DK1. After initially speaking out against Facebook’s purchase of Oculus VR back in March, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” ...

Microsoft officially announced its $2.5 billion purchase of Mojang, the Swedish company behind the ultrapopular game Minecraft, on Monday. Markus "Notch" Persson, the game's developer, has mixed ...

A few hours after it was announced that Facebook (FB 0.89%) would be buying virtual reality headset maker Oculus, the creator of one of the most popular games on the market took to Twitter to express ...

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 ...

Markus ‘Notch’ Persson created the world’s biggest video game, sold it for a fortune and began to live like a king. Then things got strange Guy Kelly has been writing features, interviewing household ...

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 ...

Playing video games can make you money and, as Markus “Notch” Persson has found out, it can make you a billionaire. The 35-year-old creator of popular video game “Minecraft” and cofounder of gaming ...

Markus "Notch" Persson, the founder of Minecraft-maker Mojang, has completed an ascent to success that most game developers would die for. However, Persson, who created the Minecraft game in 2009, ...

We've known that Minecraft has been extremely popular and a cash cow for developer Mojang, so it isn't too much of a surprise to learn that the Xbox 360 version has done extremely well. Markus "Notch" ...