Markus Persson, the billionaire creator of Minecraft, tells FORBES why he sold independent gaming company for $2.5 billion to Microsoft in an exclusive interview.

Minecraft is perhaps the most inexplicably popular game out there right now. You can’t play it on your consoles or mobile devices, only PC. It looks like an NES-era game. It’s still in its beta phase.

Markus "Notch" Persson's next big game is stuck. Freed from the necessity of hit-driven game releases, powered by the popularity of Minecraft's tens of millions of fans, Persson has the ability to not ...

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" ...

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 ...