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Xbox 360 Minecraft Goes Over 1 Million Unit Sales Mark

The Xbox 360 version of the popular Minecraft title, which was originally created by Mojang and was given a console port by 4J Studios, has managed to move 1 million digital copies on the Xbox Live Arcade service in just 5 days since launch. The game is being sold for the price of 1600 Microsoft Points, around 20 do...

15 May 2012
16:31 GMT

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition Breaks Xbox Live Arcade One Day Records

Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition, the home console video game created by Mojang and ported by 4J Studios, has managed to break the digital sales record on the Xbox Live Arcade service from Microsoft, with Markus Persson, aka Notch, saying that the port has become profitable one hour after it was officially released. The ...

11 May 2012
09:15 GMT

Mojang and Bethesda Settle Suit over Scrolls Trademark

Indie game developer Mojang, best known for creating Minecraft, and game developer and publisher Bethesda, the creator of the recent Fallout and The Elder Scrolls games, have announced that they have settled a lawsuit over the use of the Scrolls name and trademark. The legal battle between the two companies has ragg...

12 March 2012
18:31 GMT

Mojang Aims for Solid and Friendly Community for Scrolls

Scrolls, the next project from Mojang, will be a card-based collectible game adapted to the rigors of the Internet space and one of the most interesting aspects is that it will offer competitive multiplayer, allowing gamers to face off against one another. Jakob Porser, one of the founders of Mojang and the closest ...

2 March 2012
21:11 GMT

Mojang Aims for Quality and Innovation in Scrolls Before Open Beta

The creators of the very successful indie game Minecraft have said that they do not yet have a clear launch date in mind for their next title, Scrolls, but that they are aiming to make the experience as good as possible before launching a closed beta. Speaking to Gamasutra, Jakob Porser, one of the founders of Mojan...

2 March 2012
04:26 GMT

Mojang Used Fans to Crowdsource Scrolls Legal Defense

The developers at Mojang, the indie developer that is behind the hit video game Minecraft, have announced that their engagement with the fan community goes beyond talking about the video game and about its future. Carl Manneh, who is the chief executive officer at Mojang, has told Gamasutra that, “They say we&...

7 February 2012
16:41 GMT

Minecraft Mod API Is High Priority for Mojang

The developers working on indie hit Minecraft at Mojang have stated that one of the core priorities for the game in the coming months is the creation of a proper APi to support full modding for the game, mainly because the community can create more content than the team that created the title. Jens Bergensten, known...

31 January 2012
16:41 GMT

Minecraft Now Has 20 Million Registered Users

Markus Persson, aka Notch, the creator of the indie hit MInecraft, has announced that the video game now has more than 20 million registered users.The precise figure stood at 20,121,024 users when Notch took to Twitter to reveal the landmark achievement and he also said that 23.33 percent of them , which is over 4.67...

17 January 2012
04:15 GMT

LEGO Group and Mojang Working on Official Minecraft Brick Set

Mojang, the company behind the very successful indie hit Minecraft, has announced that it is officially working with the LEGO Group in order to create a LEGO brick set that is based around the game and allows fans to create real world creations that mimic those made in the video game.The company posted a statement sa...

6 December 2011
03:42 GMT

Notch Leaves Minecraft Development, Bergensten Is in Charge

Markus Persson, aka Notch, has announced that he is no longer the leading developer working on Minecraft and that the reins of the indie hit have been passed to Jens Bergensten, one of his long time collaborators working at Mojang.Speaking to Gamasutra about the move Persson has stated, “I guess we've work...

5 December 2011
10:18 GMT

Mojang's Scrolls Will Be Multiplatform Launch

A representative from Mojang has stated that the upcoming game from the developer, called Scrolls, will be a multiplatform release, being created using the Unity engine, which allows games to be ported to the PlayStation 3, the Xbox 360, the Nintendo Wii, the PC, the iOS powered devices and any thing that support Fla...

22 November 2011
07:07 GMT

Mojang's Scrolls Will Be Free after Initial Payment

Markus Persson, the developer behind Minecraft, has revealed that his upcoming Scrolls video game will feature a monetization system which is close to other free-to-play titles, except that players will have to pay initially to get the game.It seems that those players who pay the initial cost will get new scrolls to ...

25 October 2011
10:28 GMT

Minecraft Creator Wanted to Drop Scrolls Trademark But Bethesda Still Sued Him

The creator of popular indie game Minecraft and of the upcoming Scrolls title, Markus 'Notch' Persson, has cleared a few things up in regards to the pending lawsuit Bethesda is filing against him and his studio, Mojang, over the use of the Scrolls trademark, which is too similar, according to Bethesda, to i...

5 October 2011
15:51 GMT

Minecraft Developer Accused of Breaching The Elder Scrolls Trademark

Video game publisher Bethesda Softworks has sent a letter to Mojang, the indie developer behind Minecraft, accusing the company of breaching the trademark protection for The Elder Scrolls franchise by naming their next project Scrolls.Marcus Persson, who is known to his fans as Notch, has Twitted: “Just got a l...

8 August 2011
08:30 GMT

How to Digitally 'Unroll' 1,900-Year-Old Scrolls

Around 79 AD, the eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius, in the central part of Italy, buried the twin cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under 60 feet of ash and pumice. It all happened within the course of two days, but most victims were recorded during the first day. However, despite the massive devastation, from ...

25 May 2009
03:30 GMT


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