I t’s a wet monday morning in Stockholm, and the door to Markus Persson’s office is closed. The wooden blinds to the windows that look out at the 35 employees of his company, Mojang, are drawn ...

Over two days, Markus "Notch" Persson and Jakob Porsér sat down with FORBES to discuss their new lives and their decision to sell Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion.

With Minecraft, Markus Persson became a deity to millions in his virtual world. Then he abruptly took $2.5 billion and walked away. A look inside the deal of the year--and the confused, indulgent ...

— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015. Found a great girl, but she's afraid of me and my life style and went with a normal person instead.

— Markus Persson (@notch) August 29, 2015. And apparently part of his loneliness comes from not being able to date the woman he would like to, because of his wealth.

— Markus Persson (@notch) June 17, 2014. A full-figured, bearded Swede, Persson is known for his open personality that has garnered him plenty of followers in the gaming community.

Minecraft founder Markus Persson: From 'indie' tech champion to potential billionaire on Microsoft deal. By negotiating to sell his gaming startup to Microsoft Corp., Minecraft creator Markus Persson ...

While Persson was a good student, he found life at school difficult after his family moved to Stockholm when he was in second grade. Unable to make new friends easily, he became ever closer to the ...

Markus Persson — also known as Notch — has announced ‘Minecraft 2’. While the Minecraft IP is owned by Microsoft, which itself owns Mojang Studios, the studio behind Minecraft, they don ...

For many developers, the allure of creating a hit application and raking in lots of money is enough to justify long hours and months, if … ...

Minecraft creator Markus Persson, better known as Notch, has deleted his Twitter account a little over a year after promoting QAnon and making transphobic comments on the platform.

Markus Persson, the creator of Minecraft, may be not as busy in the world of video game development as he used to be, but he is quite active on Twitter where he has 3.69 million followers. As you ...