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Markus Alexej Persson ( / ˈmɑːrkəs ˈpɪərsən / ⓘ, Swedish: [ˈmǎrkɵs ˈpæ̌ːʂɔn] ⓘ; born 1 June 1979), also known as " Notch ", [3] is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is the creator of the video game Minecraft, which since its release has become the best-selling video game in history. He founded the video game ...
Xbox Game Studios (2014–present) Mojang Studios[ a] is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm. The studio is best known for developing the sandbox and survival game Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time . Mojang Studios was founded by the independent video game designer Markus Persson in 2009 as Mojang Specifications ...
Satya Nadella. Satya Narayana Nadella ( / nəˈdɛlə /; born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive. He is the executive chairman and CEO of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014 as CEO [2] [3] and John W. Thompson in 2021 as chairman. [4] [5] Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft's cloud ...
Microsoft announced it's bought Minecraft studio Mojang for a deal worth $2.5 billion. The buyout will see Mojang founders Markus "Notch" Persson, Carl Manneh and Jakob Porser leave the Swedish ...
Updated Mon, Sep 15, 2014 · 3 min read. Microsoft confirmed its $2.5 billion purchase of Minecraft developer Mojang today, with Microsofts's Head of Xbox division Phil Spencer noting that the ...
When Booty, formerly CEO of Midway Games and an Xbox exec, took the job as Microsoft's head of all things Minecraft — Booty refers to it as taking "stewardship" — it came with a mandate from ...
Sunrise in a modded version of Minecraft. $25 million in one year is certainly quite a bit less than $2.5 billion, but compared to the $85 billion Microsoft has in cash, $2.5 billion is a ...
Jens Peder Bergensten (born 18 May 1979), known professionally as Jeb, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer. He is best known as the lead designer of Minecraft, [ 1][ 2][ 3] and is the Chief Creative Officer of Mojang Studios. In 2013, he, along with Minecraft creator Markus Persson, was named as one of Time 's 100 most influential ...