Minecraft has a New Owner

Minecraft, the simple block building game that has sold over 100 million units, has now been sold to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. Minecraft, developed by independent developer, Mojang, first picked up steam back in 2009 when the alpha was first publicly released on PC. Five years later, Minecraft is now on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4, Android, iOS, Mac, Linux, and with plans to release on PS Vita. Markus "Notch" Perrson, the founder of Mojang and brain behind Minecraft will be leaving the company as it is handed over to Microsoft. He posted online after the deal was made saying "It's not about the money. It's about my sanity." Notch, recently opened up about the burden of owning Minecraft, which became much larger than he ever thought possible. Although Microsoft is the creator of Xbox, they plan to continue development and support of the game on all devices and platforms following it's aquisition of Mojang and Minecraft. Microsoft's official statement can be found here.

Getting Things Started

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So this is my intro post. My name is Dakota and I am currently a college student. My plan for this blog is to bring mainly entertainment news that would appeal to most mainstream nerds and put it on this page. I also plan on doing spotlights on different topics that relate to everything nerdy. I've thrown around the word nerd a couple times already so I guess I should explain what that entails to me. A nerd is someone with an interest in something uncommon. Everyone is nerdy about something whether it be cars, sports, or stamps. This blog will revolve around the typical nerd material; comics, movies, video games, technology, cool scientific news, and phone apps. As I get this thing up and running I will try out different formats and layouts in order to best get across my best blog setup so bare with me. This blog will mostly not have any personal comments from me unless I decide to have a particular section for that. Well I think I've explained about as much as possible and I hope to have some more up soon. Thanks.