Mojang AB
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Mojang AB | |
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Basic Information | |
Business Type |
Subsidiary |
Foundation |
2009 |
Founder |
Markus Persson, Jakob Porsér and Carl Manneh |
Parent company |
Microsoft Studios |
Product(s) |
Minecraft, Cobalt, Scrolls and 0x10c |
Head Office(s) | |
Stockholm, Sweden |
Mojang AB (from Swedish "mojäng", literally "gadget")[1] is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm. It was founded by Markus Persson as Mojang Specifications in 2009, and transformed into Mojang AB in 2010 with Jakob Porsér.[2] The company is best known for creating the three-dimensional sandbox game Minecraft, which was released in 2011.
On September 15, 2014, Mojang publicly announced that they would be bought by Microsoft, and on November 6, 2014 became a subsidiary of Xbox Game Studios (then known as Microsoft Studios).
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Hit game Minecraft to stay private. Reuters (February 4, 2013). Retrieved on March 24, 2019
- ↑ The History of Minecraft. TechRadar (June 13, 2018). Retrieved on June 28, 2019