[BLOG] Microsoft may announce Mojang purchase on Monday

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[BLOG] Microsoft may announce Mojang purchase on Monday

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The news about Microsoft's possible purchase of Mojang, the studio famous for their popular hit game Minecraft took many by surprise because the news seemed to come out of nowhere. While opinions are still divided about whether it is a positive step or not, everyone's waiting to see what will happen.



Now sources are saying the Microsoft are preparing a press release to announce that they have successfully bought out the Swedish studio in a deal supposedly worth about $2.5 billion. According to what we've heard the announcement will be made on Monday.



Previous updates on this story have told that Notch, the man behind Minecraft and Mojang was the person who started the talks with Microsoft months back. This was despite Notch having a reputation for loving the indie game scene and not really getting along well with larger companies and their interests, having once called Windows 8 a negative thing for indie gaming and famously pulled out of an Oculus-based version of Minecraft because the VR company was purchased by Facebook.



For now, all fans of Minecraft and Mojang's other games can do is wait and see...



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