{"id":68618,"date":"2014-09-10T07:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-09-10T05:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=68618"},"modified":"2014-09-10T07:51:17","modified_gmt":"2014-09-10T05:51:17","slug":"microsoft-wants-to-buy-out-minecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/68618-microsoft-wants-to-buy-out-minecraft","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft wants to buy out Minecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You read that headline right &#8211; according to reports, Microsoft is in talks to buy the company behind Minecraft, Mojang AB.<\/p>\n<p>The deal is rumoured to be worth more than $2 billion (\u00b1R21 billion).<\/p>\n<p>Although a Microsoft\/Mojang partnership is not the most expected of combinations, Minecraft&#8217;s success would make it an acquisition\u00a0target for any large corporate.<\/p>\n<p>The block-based open world crafting game has sold over 50 million copies since its launch in 2009, and Mojang made over $100 million in profits during 2013.<\/p>\n<p>If Microsoft owns the rights to Minecraft, what do you think will become of the game? Let us know in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/68458-brutal-doom-gets-more-blood.html\">Brutal Doom gets more blood<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/68536-ea-beats-game-piracy-sort-of.html\">EA beats game piracy, sort of<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/68526-razer-unveils-kraken-7-1-chroma-gaming-headset.html\">Razer unveils Kraken 7.1 Chroma gaming headset<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Microsoft buys Minecraft, I put my money on The Minecraft Movie being made within a year<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":52563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,91,333],"class_list":["post-68618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-microsoft","tag-minecraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68618"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68620,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68618\/revisions\/68620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}