Markus Persson never followed up his miracle creation. Neither did Tetris’ Alexey Pajitnov. How come only one of them could ...

Lou Contaldi specializes in both reviews and the business behind gaming. He began writing about tech and video games while getting his Juris Doctor at Hofstra University School of Law. He is maybe the ...

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Minecraft--one of the biggest games in the world and a touchstone of untold millions of childhoods--turns 10 this year. It's a little hard to believe, especially since it seems so recently that the ...

Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson took the stage for his "fireside chat" with a beer in hand. The fireplace was naturally a retro 8-bit style video of a burning log that perfectly reflected the ...

Notch and the other founders of Mojang are selling their studio and Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. In a blog post announcing the sale, Mojang's Owen Hill broke down the reasons for the sale, ...

Gamasutra recently talked with EA's chief creative director Rich Hilleman on the history of the company, and how its approach to the game-making business has affected the industry. The topic of ...

Microsoft has removed all mention of Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson from the game's splash screens. 19w13a is the latest version of Minecraft, and in the patch, Microsoft made an unusual ...

The man behind Minecraft can add another “notch” to his list of accolades. The Game Developers Choice Awards, which give out peer-voted honors during the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco ...

Minecraft is a video game that soar to such incredible heights that Notch, the username for its creator Markus Persson, soon became a household name. Now it appears that Mojang wants to distance ...

Sarah has been an editor and contributor for GameRant since 2015. She kicked off her video game journey after meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. After years of playing them, she decided ...

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 ...