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Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox video game created by Swedish game designer Markus Persson and later developed by Mojang. The game lets players build with a variety of different blocks in a 3D dynamically generated world, which requires creativity from players. Exploration, resource collection crafting, combat and many other activities are part of the game. Multiple gameplay modes are available with survival mode, where the player has to gather resources to build the world and maintain their health, creative mode where players have unlimited resources to construct with and the ability to fly, adventure mode in which players can play maps created by other players with certain limitations and spectator mode in which players are able to freely move around the world without having to build or destroy anything , and be impacted by collisions and gravity and a mode called hardcore that is similar to survival mode , but the player has only one chance to win and the game difficulty is set to the extreme. The world ceases to playable when the player dies in the hardcore mode. The Java Edition allows players to create mods that add new gameplay mechanics, textures and assets. Minecraft was praised by critics and has been awarded numerous awards and awards. The game became popular through social media, parodies and adaptations, merchandise, and the MineCon convention. It has been utilized in educational settings (Minecraft Education Edition), particularly in the realms of computing systems. Virtual computers and hardware devices can be built using it. It was the second-most played video game after Tetris and Tetris, with more than 150 million copies sold across all platforms by the end of 2018. In September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to purchase Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property for US$2.5 billion The acquisition was completed two months after.  GAMEAFF -off game dubbed Minecraft: Story Mode was also released. The game had a total of 91 million users monthly as of mid-2018.