Minecraft

Minecraft is a sandbox-building independent video game created by Swedish programmer Markus  Persson and now developed by his company, Mojang. In 2011, Jens Bergensten, took full creative control over Minecraft. It was released as an alpha on May 17, 2009, with a beta version on December  20, 2010. Official versions for iOS and Android have been released and the full version of the PC game was released on November 18, 2011 at MineCon 2011. The Android release was temporarily exclusive to the Xperia play but is now available to the rest of the Android market. On May 9, 2012, Minecraft was released on Xbox 360 as an Xbox Live Arcade game, co-developed by 4J studios . All editions of the  game can be bought as a one-time purchase (not monthly).  As of May 25, 2012, the game has sold over six million copies on PC,and over nine million copies across all platforms. Minecraft was published by Mojang and co-publishers Microsoft studios and proceeds total $763,000. It can be purchased digitally on PC and/or from retail game stores at a price around £16.95.