Microsoft bought the company-developer for Minecraft US $ 2 billion

Loomed on the horizon, one of the largest deals in the gaming world: the corporation Microsoft, apparently closes acquisition of Mojang, developer Minecraft, over $ 2 billion.

Officially, the corporation does not report on this, as well as Mojang, but murder will out, several well-known media wrote that the deal is close to closing.

In the beginning, The Wall Street Journal wrote that a source close to the leadership of the company, said about the negotiations between Microsoft and Mojang. Transaction amount - about $ 2 billion, although the price is still being debated.

Then already journalists The New York Times wrote that arrangements have been made for a long time, about three months ago, and the end of the month the transaction will close.

In this Bloomberg writes that the author of Minecraft, and the current head of Mojang, Markus [Notch] Pearson, going to leave the company. Not because the buyer insists on his departure, no. Just Marcus spent a lot of time to work with the project, and wants to try myself in something else other than toys.

By the way, not so long ago went for Minecraft Xbox One, it happened on September 5th. Upgrade to the new version of the owners of toys for the Xbox 360 in just $ 5. Well, the price of the full version is $ 20. Now the game is available for PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, iOS and Android. In a short time, and must leave the version for the PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita.

Incidentally, last year Minecraft creator earned US $ 101 million, even wondered what .

Source: habrahabr.ru/post/236313/