Microsoft's move to buy Minecraft developer and owner Mojang for $2.5 billion may come as a surprise to the game's more fervent fans, but it is rooted in commercial, if not cultural, sense. The news ...

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Minecraft isn’t a very hardware-intensive game, but if you’re hoping to run your own server, there are some key points to take into account. The first bottleneck you’re likely to encounter is RAM: You ...

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A day after challenging Bethesda Softworks to settle a legal dispute by playing Quake III, Minecraft's owner thinks he might have made a strategic miscalculation. Notch Persson twigged, after he made ...

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