Minecraft has reached a new milestone. Someone should build a pixelated, blocky monument to celebrate it.
Developer Mojang has sold nearly 107 million copies of Minecraft across console, PC, and mobile since it first went on sale in 2009. The studio claims Minecraft has players from every country on Earth, and that even includes four copies sold in Antarctica. This makes it one of the best-selling games ever made, and it still has a ton of momentum. The Microsoft property has sold an average of 53,000 copies every day of 2016, and it has more than 40 million monthly unique players in the $99.6 billion gaming industry.
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While Minecraft has already reached 100 million consumers, Mojang and Microsoft likely aren’t putting down the pickaxe anytime soon. The PC version of the game is getting an update soon that will feature polar bears and more. And it’s probably a safe bet that Microsoft will have more to say about the game coming out of the upcoming Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow later this month in Los Angeles.
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