Swedish billionaire Markus Persson has bought the Beverly Hills spec mansion built by handbag tycoon Bruce Makowsky for $70 million. The purchase included all the bells and whistles used to stage the home, including the furnishings and electronics – even cases of Dom Perignon in the 2,500-bottle wine room.

It's a big change for a normally open-ended game. This article was originally published on the Daily Dot. The developer of Minecraft has partnered with another high-profile company on a major expansion to the popular online game. Telltale Games on Thursday announced the development of Minecraft: Story Mode. Minecraft developer Mojang presented the news through a mini-game called Info Quest II.

British art institution Tate has teamed up with the game's cartographers to create virtual 3-D worlds inspired by great artworks.

Brecht Vandenbroucke Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It's considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it's a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic—the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I've seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and…

With a simple "yes," Microsoft's Xbox chief, Phil Spencer, has confirmed that Minecraft will be heading to Windows Phone. It's not a surprising move given Microsoft's recent acquisition of the popular title, but the software maker didn't promise to bring Minecraft to Windows Phone in its original announcement. Spencer's confirmation means Microsoft will likely be working on porting the game across once the deal is finalized, and it may even arrive for Surface RT and Windows RT users

Markus "Notch" Persson, the founder of the immensely popular world-building game Minecraft, is stepping down following Microsoft's $2.5 billion acquisition of Minecraft maker Mojang Monday morning.

In Minecraft, Microsoft is taking control of a game that has become a cultural phenomenon. Markus Persson, though, is bidding adieu.

Buying a game company is like buying an aging baseball player. You’ll need a miracle to get another hit. And while they might have plenty of fans, they probably aren’t making a lot of new ones. Mojang hit a grand slam home run with Minecraft, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft should pay $2.5 billion for it, as it’s reportedly going to announce this week.

By negotiating to sell his gaming startup to Microsoft Corp., Minecraft creator Markus Persson is growing closer to a company he once publicly lambasted -- and has a chance of becoming a billionaire at the age of 35.

Microsoft Corp is in serious discussions to buy Mojang AB, the Swedish company behind the popular "Minecraft" video game, The Wall Street Journal said.

The worldwide domination of Markus Persson's building-blocks game is a triumph for the power of human imagination, writes John Naughton

The project to re-create Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, shot-for-shot, within Minecraft is nearing completion. Its creator says the flick will be ready in 2015, and released this teaser trailer to show his work.

It’s almost inevitable: I encounter Minecraft somewhere online—it’s easy to do, because there’s a lot of Minecraft out there—and I end up convinced I’m doing the wrong thing with my life. Let me explain.

Calculations to determine how long it would take to mine a Minecraft world vs. Earth. This video omits certain operations for the sake of brevity. If you are curious as to how a given variable was attained, turn on annotations and mouse over the red square in the corner.

This week the kids at Camp Combe YMCA will have the chance to explore the great outdoors in the beautiful wooded hills of upstate New York. Or at least they will, if they have any time left after spending a week and a half inside the world of Minecraft.

A funny little movie based on the Minecraft game. It's replete with slapstick and quirky characters. Enjoy.

So, the Danish government sanctioned the creation of a replica version of their country within "Minecraft" to use as a progressive teaching tool for schoolchildren, educating them about Denmark's geography...

Denmark has been totally recreated in sandbox game Minecraft, making it the first country able to be explored in the game.

Simon proudly shows off his Minecraft single player world with the Mo' Creatures mod..And once he discovers bunnies,things go from bad to worse. Enjoy!