Just ask Minecraft founder and recent billionaire Markus Persson. The Swedish creator of the hugely popular video game, which he sold to Microsoft for $A2.7 billion ...

It’s 7 pm on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-storey office, sipping the speedball of alcoholic beverages, a vodka Red Bull. Three hours ago he committed to ...

The L.A. area’s unusually hot ultra-luxury real estate market ended 2014 with yet another mega-sale. Swedish video game billionaire Markus Persson bought a Beverly Hills mansion built by handbag ...

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On Thursday morning, Markus Persson, the creator of the first-person video game Minecraft, sent out a tweet that never really needed to exist in the first place. “It’s ok to be white,” the 38-year-old ...

Whenever a cool startup is bought by an established company social media goes crazy. This time the angriest bird is the man behind one of the most successful games on the market. Minecraft creator ...

Life after God: Markus Persson became a deity to millions in his virtual world Minecraft's Markus Persson then abruptly took $2.5 billion and walked away. A look inside the deal of the year-and the ...