Mojang's 0x10c 'on ice' due to creative block
Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says that 0x10c is "on ice" until they can fix a creative block, and he's bringing in more team members to get around the problem.
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Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson says that 0x10c is "on ice" until they can fix a creative block, and he's bringing in more team members to get around the problem.
Minecraft, you may have heard, is pretty popular. In January 2011, while the game was still in beta, it passed 1 million sales. Two and a bit years later, the PC edition has now hit the 10 million sales mark. Gosh, that's a big round number. The Xbox 360 edition recently passed 6 million too, while the mobile version has sold at least 7 million.
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