and has ended up under the control of Microsoft who paid over 2 billion dollars for its rights. This sandbox adventure and construction game with huge pixels has sold dozens of millions of copies all over the world. Its creator Markus 'Notch' Persson published it through Mojang and surely didn't expect the success it reached in a very short period of time. Developed as an indie game and released publicly in 2009, Minecraft has become a mass phenomenon.
