The original creator of Minecraft, Notch, added his opinion to the discussion around gamer access rights and Stop Killing Games.

"Notch is the games industry's Justin Bieber right now. Let me walk you through this. Justin Bieber has exploded, and Justin Bieber, as much as many want to hate him, is a very talented guy.

"Piracy is not a solution to anything," says Minecraft creator Notch. The Swedish developer has never really hidden his views on piracy. Summarised, the Minecraft creator considers software theft ...

Notch, the guy who pulled the plug on an Oculus Rift version of Minecraft because "Facebook creeps me out". Notch hasn't even been directly involved with day-to-day Minecraft development since 2011.

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Five years after the game's release, Microsoft acquired Mojang, the company Notch founded, for $2.5 billion in September 2014, giving the Redmond firm control over Minecraft.

Marcus "Notch" Persson sold his game development company, Mojang, which held the rights for the massively popular title, Minecraft, to Microsoft, all the way back in 2014.

Notch first released Minecraft in 2009, and oversaw its early years of development before, in 2014, selling the game and Mojang Studios to Microsoft in a deal worth $2.5 billion.

Notch and the other founders of Mojang are selling their studio and Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. In a blog post announcing the sale, Mojang’s Owen Hill broke down the reasons for the ...

Notch elaborated on this in a conversation with Kotaku, saying he'd built several prototypes for games for the Oculus Rift, and the mobile Minecraft development team had worked on an Oculus Rift ...