#September2014
Official: Microsoft buys ‘Minecraft’ for $2.5 Billion
What was spoken of is now confirmed. Microsoft has bought one of Gaming and Pop Culture’s Biggest Phenomenons for $2.5 billion.
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‘MINECRAFT’ creator Notch drops new game, ‘CLIFFHORSE.’
The mind behind Minecraft has dropped his latest game. Cliffhorse. In which you’re a horse, and you run around near cliffs and shit? The entire thing feels like Notch having a bit of fun with the gaming community. ‘Cause like. You gotta buy it with Dogecoin. And like. Cliffs. Horses.
MINECRAFT CREATOR gets GOLDEN PSONE from Sony. MICROSOFT sends box of tacks to Team Meatboy.
Sony has sent the creator of Minecraft an invitation to an E3 Event in the form of a fucking golden PSOne. It’s awesome seeing Sony rolling out the red (golden? ha!) carpet for indie developers. Meanwhile, Microsoft is ripping the carpet out from underneath their indie creators’ feet. You know. Blowing smoke in their eyes, getting rid of their dedicated XBL channel, and telling them to be grateful to even be able to find a third-party publisher to push their pretentious swill.
Definitely different vibes from the two camps.
Minecraft creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson and Mark Cuban drop combined $500,000 to help reform software patents.
How is this for an unlikely pairing. The creator of Minecraft and the bombastic owner of the Dallas Mavericks have combined forces to drop half a milli in order to help reform software patents. By the Lords of Kobol, with these sorts of pairings nothing is impossible!
‘MINECRAFT” For XBLA Sold 1 Million Copies IN 5 Days; I Still Don’t Understand Game.
Minecraft continues to be a bankable commodity on a litany of devices, including the Xbox Live Arcade Place. It also continues to be a fucking enigma to me.
