Minecraft creator Markus Persson said AI coding advocates were "incompetent or evil" in January. By July, he said it was "time to eat some crow." ...

Swedish video game programmer and designer Markus Persson spent the first half of 2026 telling anyone who'd listen that AI coding was a mistake. By August, the Minecraft creator known as Notch ...

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While you sipped on spiked egg nogs and avoided the in-laws this holiday season, Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson bought himself the ultimate Christmas gift: A $70 million Beverly Hills ...

Windows 8 hasn’t been released yet, but Microsoft’s upcoming software has already become a cause of concern for some figures in the PC industry, namely those in the computer-gaming space. “Minecraft” ...

It’s truly the end of an era. Long before it was a worldwide cultural phenomenon, Minecraft was a simple, insanely fun world-building game conceived and created by one man: Markus Persson, lovingly ...