Microsoft buys development company Minecraft for $ 2 billion

One of the largest deals in the gaming world loomed on the horizon: Microsoft seems to be closing a deal to acquire Mojang, the developer of Minecraft, for $ 2 billion.

Officially, the corporation does not report this, nor does Mojang, but you can’t hide the sewing in a bag: several well-known media outlets wrote that the deal was close to closing.
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At the very beginning of The Wall Street Journal wrote that a certain source close to the management of the companies reported on negotiations between Microsoft and Mojang. The amount of the transaction - about 2 billion US dollars, although the price is still under discussion.

Then the journalists of The New York Times wrote that the agreements were reached a long time ago, about three months ago, and the deal would be closed by the end of this month.

In this case, Bloomberg writes that the author of Minecraft, and the current head of Mojang, Markus [Notch] Person, is about to leave the company. Not because the buyer insists on his departure, not at all. Just Marcus spent a lot of time working with the project, and wants to try himself in something else besides toys.

By the way, not so long ago, Minecraft came out for the Xbox One, it happened on September 5th. Up to the new version of the owners of toys for the Xbox 360 can be just $ 5. Well, the price of the full version is $ 20. Now the game is available for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, iOS and Android. Soon there should be versions for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.

By the way, over the past year, the creator of Minecraft earned 101 million US dollars, which even surprised .