NEW YORK (AP) - Microsoft's decision to spend $2.5 billion for the creator of the hit game "Minecraft" could help the Xbox maker grab attention on mobile phones, a new priority for the company.

Minecraft is popular, perhaps even notorious, for all the expressions of creativity and man hours lost in its open-ended, blocky, digital world. It is, however, perhaps a little known secret that that ...

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft’s impending purchase of Mojang, the Swedish developer with 100 million players of its open world Minecraft game, is more aimed at pulling users onto the software ...

Sad that the mobile version lacks the flexibility of the PC version? Cheer up. Microsoft is bringing power tools -- command blocks and modding -- to Minecraft for phones and tablets. Stephen Shankland ...

Mobile in-app purchases for Minecraft rose 44% after the release of A Minecraft Movie. That's according to a new transmedia report from market intelligence firm Sensor Tower which showed that active ...

Minecraft can be so addictive because it offers the freedom to recreate or build from scratch any kind of world or setting you can imagine, without having to worrying about things like “money” or ...

'Minecraft' on Nintendo Switch will soon allow cross-platform play. Mojang's Brand Director Lydia Winters speaks about 'Minecraft' during the Microsoft xBox E3 briefing at the Galen Center on June 11, ...

The $2.5 billion sale of the hit game could help the Xbox maker in their pursuit for mobile phone customers. NEW YORK — Microsoft's decision to spend $2.5 billion for the creator of the hit game ...