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Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox video game that was created by Swedish game developer Markus Persson and later developed by Mojang. gaming MINECRAFT The game lets players build using a variety of blocks in the form of a procedurally generated 3D world. This requires creativity from players. Other game-related activities include exploration, resource collection crafting, combat, and exploration. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode in which the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain their health creative mode in which players have unlimited resources to construct with and the ability to fly, adventure mode in which players can play custom maps made by other players with some restrictions 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 the hardcore mode that is similar to survival mode but the player gets only one chance, and the difficulty of the game is locked to the extreme. The world becomes unplayable if the player dies in the hardcore mode. The Java Edition of the game lets players create mods that incorporate new gameplay mechanics, items, textures and assets. Minecraft was praised by critics and has won numerous awards and accolades. Social media, parodies, merchandise, adaptations, and the MineCon convention played a significant role in the popularity of the game. It is also used in educational environments (Minecraft Education Edition) and in the realm of computer systems, as virtual computers and hardware devices were built into it. It was the second-most played video game, after Tetris which had more than 150 million copies sold across all platforms by late 2018. In September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to purchase Mojang and the Minecraft intellectual property for US$2.5 billion and the acquisition was completed two months after. A spin-off game dubbed Minecraft: Story Mode was also launched. By mid-2018 the game had a total of 91 million active players monthly.