Microsoft now owns Minecraft

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38 points·beshrkayali··17 comments

I look forward to seeing notch's announcement on his blog. Semi-depressing, but it should be interesting to see how this plays out.

As an alpha purchaser in 2010, i hope they still honor the lifetime updates promised.

Looks like he's leaving Mojang: http://notch.net/2014/09/im-leaving-mojang/

"Microsoft Studios includes 343 Industries, Turn 10 Studios, and Lionhead Studios just to name a few."

Ouch.

Care to elaborate?

I think he wants to say that now Lionhead Studios is dead. After awesome hits like Black & White since Microsoft took over they don't release great names anymore.

B&W 2 was a deception so maybe Minecraft 2 is going to be one again.

The Fable series is pretty damn good :)

Don't forget about poor, poor Rare...

Edit: remembered this, http://www.p4rgaming.com/mojang-prepares-to-make-kinect-spor... p4r is gold.

>acclaimed hit series Kinect Sports

Ahahah. That article is golden.

hm, i always thought minecraft would someday be open sourced..

In fact notch has stated several times that he would open source it when it stopped being profitable. But I guess a 2.5 billion buyout rules out unprofitability.

The term Micro$haft seems oddly appropriate for this.

I think most people voting you down missed the wordplay.

If I cared about downvotes I wouldn't post on HN :P

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