Markus “Notch” Persson is the latest victim of a celebrity death hoax on social media. Pic credit: Forbes/YouTube Markus Persson, better known as Notch, is the billionaire creator of Minecraft. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a blog post, Mojang co-founder Markus Persson says he's leaving the company following its sale to Microsoft for the sake of his sanity. Most acquisitions are made in the name of growth, a shared ...

For many developers, the allure of creating a hit application and raking in lots of money is enough to justify long hours and months, if not years, of thankless work spent hunched over a computer and ...

It is reportedly the product of a US$500-million development budget — a video-game with a far bigger upfront investment than even the most magnificent of blockbuster films: 2007’s Pirates of the ...

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Is it tough being a billionaire? Minecraft creator Markus Persson recently seemed to suggest he isn’t fully enjoying his financial freedom. A series of Tweets that Persson sent out caught the ...

Life after God: Markus Persson became a deity to millions in his virtual world Minecraft's Markus Persson then abruptly took $2.5 billion and walked away. A look inside the deal of the year-and the ...

I am completely blameless in the sad story of Markus Persson. I had vaguely been aware of a computer game called Minecraft, but I had never felt the need to contribute to Persson's unfeasible wealth ...

On Thursday morning, Markus Persson, the creator of the first-person video game Minecraft, sent out a tweet that never really needed to exist in the first place. “It’s ok to be white,” the 38-year-old ...