History

Mojang Studios was founded by the independent video game designer Markus Persson in 2009 as Mojang Specifications for Minecraft's development. The studio inherited its name from another video game venture Persson had left two years prior.

Why did Notch create Minecraft? He developed Minecraft because he enjoys developing video games and happened on some inspiration for a new game.

Mojang Studios is a Microsoft-owned game studio based in Stockholm (Sweden) and Redmond (WA) with additional locations in London, Shanghai, and Tokyo as well as a partially remote workforce.

The answer, as of 2022, is $350 million. In 2021, the game made $380 million, in 2020, $415 million, and in 2018 $500 million. This is the revenue from all the different gaming platforms Minecraft is released in combined.

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