STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — Microsoft raised eyebrows in 2014 with the announcement it was spending a hefty $2.5 billion to buy Mojang, the Swedish developer of world-building game “Minecraft.” The reaction ...

I don't spend a lot of time balking, because I'm not really clear on the definition. But balk is what I did upon first realising what was required of me to set up a simple Minecraft multiplayer server ...

Sweden's games trade body Dataspelsbranschen has revealed its Game Culture Canon which aims to highlight the cultural significance of games as forms of art and expression. Sweden's Game Culture Canon ...

“It’s the cold weather – you sit inside, you game, you don’t really have anything to do outside,” says Philip Westre, who co-founded the small game developer Landfall, when asked to explain the ...

Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418, is a German musician hailing from Germany. He is most famous for creating the soundtrack to the popular 2011 video game Minecraft, a game that has had a lasting ...

Mojang, the Stockholm-based studio behind Minecraft, is up for an award for a recent move — not one in the gaming market, but a physical move to a new location that has been nominated in the "Sweden's ...

One school in Sweden added Minecraft to its curriculum for 13-year-old students in an effort to teach lessons of building in virtual worlds, city planning, environmental awareness, preparing for the ...

Swedish creations topped the tables in Apple's yearly global app lists, with Candy Crush earning the most money and Minecraft Pocket Edition topping the paid downloads charts. Minecraft Pocket Edition ...

STOCKHOLM - Microsoft raised eyebrows in 2014 with the announcement it was spending a hefty $2.5 billion to buy Mojang, the Swedish developer of world-building game "Minecraft." The reaction among the ...