The original indie dev: How one man made 22 games in 22 years, mostly from his basement
Jeff Vogel has created a prolific, independent game development success story without leaving his house. He tells us how it's done.
Minecraft is by far YouTube’s most popular game
Newzoo released a list of the top 20 most popular games according to views received on YouTube videos. Newzoo got the info by continuously tracking over 4 million gaming-related YouTube channels. As you can see in the chart below, Minecraft was way ahead with 2.395 billion views in January.
‘Star Wars: Rebels’ gets its own Minecraft skin pack
Microsoft bought Mojang, the company behind Minecraft, for $2.5 billion last September. Although the game is available for other platforms, including rival Sony’s PlayStation 4, exclusive content like this for Microsoft’s consoles is a benefit of the acquisition.
How John Carmack pestered Microsoft to let him make Minecraft for Gear VR
Oculus VR chief technology officer John Carmack was desperate to get the block-building open-world game Minecraft into virtual reality, but it took a lot of...
Minecraft is building blocky stacks of cash for Microsoft
The Xbox company reports a 79 percent increase in first-party game sales.
Minecraft’s Ender Dragon boss gets a makeover for update 1.9
A Mojang developer says he has "plans" for what many consider the end-game boss of Minecraft.
Minecraft fans, get ready: Mojang COO tweets that MineCon news is coming ‘soon’
Minecraft fans, your suffering is almost at an end. For today, for it appears that an announcement about the next MineCon is at hand.
Minecraft dominates Guinness Book of Records’ Gamer Edition
Minecraft has tons of records listed in the Guinness World Records 2015 Gamer’s Edition.
Minecraft: Pocket Edition hits 30 million downloads
Minecraft's mobile version gives hit a download number that the developer jokes is "more than the entire observable universe."