Markus Persson, also known as “Notch,” is the developer and creator of Minecraft. The open-world sandbox game focuses on building, crafting, and mining within a randomly generated virtual world, and ...

Markus "Notch" Persson, the creator of Minecraft, made a rare appearance online on July 7, 2025, and stirred up a heated debate in the gaming world. After being quiet on social media for a while, ...

This statement reassured fans that the new game would offer the creativity and open-ended exploration that made Minecraft so beloved, while also carving its own identity. Notch’s announcement has ...

The creator of Minecraft, known online as Notch, has come out in support of the ideas associated with the Stop Killing Games movement and spoken directly about the EU petition. Notch’s comments come ...

This is the dream, right? A game designer and coder, working completely alone and outside of a commercial context, hits on a concept that sets the world alight. It becomes a culture-saturating ...

Minecraft is a game that needs no introduction; it’s easily one of the most popular video games that has ever existed, and it’s literally the highest-selling video game of all time, having sold 300 ...

Mojang Studios was sold to Microsoft in 2014 for $2 billion. As a result, Notch left the company that same year and pursued other interests. Despite helping initiate the sale, Notch felt like a ...

The 16th annual Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) will honour Markus "Notch" Persson and Tracy Fullerton with the Ambassador and Pioneer Awards at GDC next month. Persson will receive the Pioneer ...

Markus "Notch" Persson, the founder of Minecraft developer Mojang, offered Tim Schafer $13 million in funding to make a sequel to Psychonauts, Kotaku reports. The situation emerged with an offhand ...