Playing video games can make you money and, as Markus “Notch” Persson has found out, it can make you a billionaire. The 35-year-old creator of popular video game “Minecraft” and cofounder of gaming ...

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While you sipped on spiked egg nogs and avoided the in-laws this holiday season, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson bought himself the ultimate Christmas gift: A $70 million Beverly Hills ...

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Just ask Minecraft founder and recent billionaire Markus Persson. The Swedish creator of the hugely popular video game, which he sold to Microsoft for $A2.7 billion ...

Success can turn out to be a real pain. Minecraft’s creator Markus Persson took to Twitter this weekend to vent… Read More Minecraft creator and Super Swede ...

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 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 ...

A few hours after it was announced that Facebook (FB 0.89%) would be buying virtual reality headset maker Oculus, the creator of one of the most popular games on the market took to Twitter to express ...

Markus “Notch” Persson, developer of Minecraft. Ivan Widjaya/Flickr Creative Commons But while Soret is seemingly contrite, other developers have continued trolling unabated. This week Persson in ...

It may not be as pricey as the spec mansion Minecraft creator Markus Persson scooped up for $70 million — which listed for $85 million — but the Beverly Hills estate at 1251 Shadow Hill Way does have ...

Conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos received big-name support on Wednesday for reversing his lifetime Twitter ban: Minecraft creator Markus Persson. Twitter froze Mr. Yiannopoulos’ account on ...