When Microsoft bought Mojang, the makers of the insanely popular Minecraft, in a surprise $2.5 billion deal in September 2014, nobody knew what to think. The game seemed an odd fit for Microsoft, ...

Microsoft has shut down a Minecraft port, but it's not what you think, honestly. When Minecraft became a Microsoft property, doomsayers were quick to predict the platform holder would move to secure ...

Microsoft announced this week that it's buying hugely popular game franchise Minecraft for $2.5 billion. For that money, Microsoft gets rights to the game and ownership of its Stockholm, Sweden-based ...

Sad that the mobile version lacks the flexibility of the PC version? Cheer up. Microsoft is bringing power tools -- command blocks and modding -- to Minecraft for phones and tablets. Stephen Shankland ...

What started as a one-man project and quickly grew into a computer game phenomenon played by tens of millions of children and adults worldwide will be absorbed by Microsoft Corp. for $2.5 billion.

The video game world saw a massive acquisition Monday when Microsoft confirmed it was buying Mojang, the company behind the immense world-building game Minecraft, for $2.5 billion. Now let's be clear: ...

High above the forest floor, three figures run stiffly across a rope bridge. The bridge is long and appears to sag under its own weight, but it doesn't buckle or break. Instead, it carries its ...

Microsoft expands its vision of using the blocky video game in classrooms with the acquisition of a learning tool called MinecraftEdu. Mary Jo Foley Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 ...

I attended Minecon 2015 last week in London, which, according to The Guinness Book of World's Records, was the largest gathering for any single game. Over 10,000 Minecraft players, YouTubers, ...

When Microsoft bought Mojang, the makers of the insanely popular Minecraft, in a surprise $2.5 billion deal in September 2014, nobody knew what to think. The game seemed an odd fit for Microsoft, ...