| − | Minecraft was named Cave Came during its creation phase and first released to the public as Minecraft on May 17, 2009 as a developmental "alpha" release. Markus Persson founded Mojang in May 2009 to develop Minecraft. Persson quit his day job with Jalbum.net to work on Minecraft full-time in May 2010, and the beta version of the game came out in December 2010. Minecraft fully released on 18 November 2011. Persson sold Mojang and Minecraft to [[Microsoft]] on 15 September 2014 for $2.5 billion USD and he got $1.8 billion of it. It still gets updates today such as new items, new blocks, "The Nether" dimension (accessible through construction of a portal) which was inspired by concepts of [[hell]], "The End" dimention where you fight the game's final boss, tamable [[wolves]] that assist the player, and changes to the game's behavior (e.g., how water flows). | + | Minecraft was named Cave Came during its creation phase and first released to the public as Minecraft on May 17, 2009, as a developmental "alpha" release. Markus Persson founded Mojang in May 2009 to develop Minecraft. Persson quit his day job with Jalbum.net to work on Minecraft full-time in May 2010, and the beta version of the game came out in December 2010. Minecraft fully released on 18 November 2011. Persson sold Mojang and Minecraft to [[Microsoft]] on 15 September 2014 for US$2.5 billion and he got $1.8 billion of it. It still gets updates today such as new items, new blocks, "The Nether" dimension (accessible through construction of a portal) which was inspired by concepts of [[hell]], "The End" dimension where you fight the game's final boss, tamable [[wolves]] that assist the player, and changes to the game's behavior (e.g., how water flows). |