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Minecraft Creator “Notch” Tweets a Less Than Happy Circumstances
Success is a concept which many of us can relate to, building a company from scratch before selling it for a price tag of $2.5 billion, now that is unique. Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, founder of Minecraft creator Mojang has shared his thoughts on Twitter regarding how his life has evolved…
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It Only Took One Tweet for Microsoft to Buy Minecraft
Minecraft has been one of the most successful games this decade and by far the most impressive startup. The creator, Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, has now been honored for his accomplishments by a cover story in Forbes magazine. The article reveals a couple interesting things about Notch and among them, that it only…
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Notch’s New Mansion Created in Minecraft
After becoming obscenely wealthy from the sale of Minecraft to Microsoft, Markus “Notch” Persson, creator of the game, outbid Jay Z to buy a luxurious Beverly Hills mansion last week. Now, an industrious Minecraft player has recreated Notch’s new home in-game. Dan Bovey, creator of the facsimile, has made the model…
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Minecraft’s Notch Buys Most Expensive House in Beverly Hills
The creator of Minecraft, Markus Persson (Notch) has reportedly purchased the most expensive house in Beverly Hills for a whopping $70 million. We’re all aware of Microsoft’s acquisition of Mojang, the company behind Minecraft earlier this year. That deal landed Notch $2.5 billion, explaining his most recent purchase. The house includes an “automated…
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Microsoft Has Bought Minecraft for Huge Amount
The deal has been rumoured for a while and now it has become a reality. Microsoft have bought Minecraft maker Mojang along with all of their intellectual properties, in what can only be described as a mega deal. The deal has been finalised and Microsoft ended up paying $2.5 billion. Microsoft doesn’t…
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Latest Minecraft Patch Is Here, Took Almost a Year to Develop
With over 300 days development time to its name, the Minecraft Version 1.8 patch is finally here, bringing with it a wide range of updates and improvements to the PC edition of the massively popular title. The new update includes everything from new block types such as Prismarine and Sea…
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Minecraft Pocket Edition Gets Massive Update
Majong owned gaming sensation Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) has been given a massive overhaul that will bring the mobile experience more in line with the desktop offering. The update packs loads more content into the mobile game by adding infinite worlds, caves, new blocks, wolves and a whole lot more.…
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Unreleased Aphex Twin Album Auction Was Won By Notch
I’ve long been a fan of Aphex Twin, despite my persistent obsession with multiple forms of heavy metal and guitar based music in general, so I was very pleased to find out this month that a whole album of unreleased tracks was discovered recently. The album went up on Kickstarter…
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Minecraft Xbox 360 Sales Top 7 Million Units And Still Climbing
Notch can continue to laugh either with us or at us from atop of a giant pile of money, his low resolution, simplistic and completely addictive digital block basher has gone on to incredible success that is rarely seen in such a short space of time, especially for something that started…
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UPDATE: The Humble Indie Bundle 8
Last week I published an article about Humble Bundles eight installment of their Indie Bundle. Where, you were able to get 7 great games for one low price. The bundle includes 5 games, and you get to pay what you want. If you pay at least one dollar you will get steam…
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Insomnia 49 Brings Global Phenomenon ‘Minecraft Expo’ To Summer Gaming Festival
Multiplay, organiser of the UK’s largest gaming festivals, has today confirmed details of the latest addition to the Insomnia 49 event: the UK’s first Minecraft Expo. The Minecraft Expo will form a significant part of the highly anticipated summer gaming festival, offering visitors free-to-play tournaments, Minecraft talks and presentations, and…
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“Notch” One of Time’s Top 100
In 1999 Time magazine started to make the annual list for 100 most influential people in the world. In order to be recognized you must fall into one of five categories: Leaders & Revolutionaries Builders & Titans Artists & Entertainers Scientists & Thinkers Heroes & Icons Figures such range from…
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