GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. The Minecraft series had a record sales year in 2012. Developer Mojang has announced that total franchise sales for the game exceeded 15 million ...

(UPDATE 2: Manneh has indicated more shipments of the Lego Minecraft set hit US shores on December 7th. Read or listen to my interview with Manneh here). (UPDATE: Lego has heard the cries and is ...

We already knew that sales for Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition came in over the 5 million mark for 2012, but today we're getting a broader picture of the sales the franchise managed last year. Mojang has ...

According to it's CEO, Carl Manneh, Mojang, the studio behind Minecraft, is on track for $200 million in revenue in 2012. It's an impressive number, one that no doubt puts the Minecraft developer on a ...

Runt of the litter no longer - the Xbox Live Arcade version of Minecraft sold more copies than the PC edition in 2012. 5,002,370 copies to the PC's 4,177,843, Mojang revealed. Add to that the ...

The Pocket Edition of indie mega-sensation Minecraft was purchased a staggering 5,899,727 times across the iOS and Android app stores in 2012. This compares to a 'mere' 4,177,843 copies of the PC ...

Minecraft fans who couldn't make it to Euro Disney this weekend still have plenty to be happy about, with a slew of new announcements out of the second annual fan conference for Mojang's sandbox ...

He works in mysterious ways.

This article emerges from Future Tense, a partnership of Slate, the New America Foundation, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies and their effects on policy and society. On ...