Minecraft is temporarily free
Minecraft is a little indie balloon swelling with popularity and success, and it just burst. The main server buckled under the weight of purchases, updates, and user verifications, and Notch has suspended all of those functions to get the game working again. Which means he’s made it free, for a while.
Community heroes: Notch, for Minecraft
This week on the site, we want to celebrate some of the heroes of the PC gaming community. People who’ve devoted huge amounts of their free time to making something awesome for the rest of us to enjoy. Today we’re talking to Markus ‘Notch’ Persson, creator of the awesome indie building game Minecraft – which, it turns out, most of Valve seem to be playing.
