STOCKHOLM/SEATTLE: Microsoft Corp has agreed to acquire the Stockholm-based developer of the wildly popular Minecraft videogame for US$2.5bil (RM8.1bil), as it tries to lure a new and mostly young audience into its mobile world.
Minecraft — a construction game in which players can build nearly anything imaginable, block by block, in a digital, Lego-like world — has spread like wildfire since its full release by developer Mojang in 2011.
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