Later: Now it's official.)Ĭreated by Swedish Programmer Markus 'Notch' Persson and now developed by Mojang, the alpha version of Minecraft was released in May 2009. ( Important updates below: While this screen grab is exactly what it appears to be, the number in the counter is not. And it's going up about one every second.' Since he has mentioned this before, I knew he was speaking of a counter documenting how many people had purchased the PC/Mac version of the insanely popular video game, priced today at $26.95.Ī few minutes ago, that counter hit the magic number. As I'm leaving home this morning, Grant, my 11-year-old son and Minecraft marvel, says to me: 'Dad, Minecraft is only 7,000 away from reaching 10 million.
