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Minecraft

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96 articles stable

Minecraft has appeared in 96 articles since 2015-03. Coverage peaked in 2025Q2 with 4 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Microsoft, Apple, Roblox, Google.

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96
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0.0%
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Acceleration
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Sources
43
publications

Coverage Timeline

2022-10-10
New York Times 3 related

An interview with YouTuber Christopher Slayton, aka ChrisDaCow, on building the entire observable universe in Minecraft over nearly two months

April Rubin / New York Times :

2018-08-23
CNET

Interview with Microsoft's Executive VP of Gaming Phil Spencer on the potential of Xbox, the need to invest in first-party studios, streaming, and Satya Nadella

Ian Sherr / CNET : Tweets: @doccupcake84 , @cnet , and @cnet Tweets: @doccupcake84 : Powerful! “For many kids, their first experience with technology could be with Minecraft. What is our social respo...

2018-01-18
VentureBeat 11 related

Microsoft promotes Minecraft boss Matt Booty to corporate VP of Microsoft Studios to oversee game development and publishing for console, PC, and mobile

Microsoft has promoted Matt Booty, a leader in the Minecraft games business, as corporate vice president of Microsoft Studios …

2015-06-08
Wired

Inside story of the final days of Mojang: feelings of betrayal, plummeting employee morale, an absent Notch, and money as salve

The Unlikely Story of Microsoft's Surprise Minecraft Buyout  —  Microsoft's $2.5 billion purchase of Mojang and Minecraft last September … Tweets: @hunterwalk Tweets: Hunter Walk / @hunterwalk : Hmm, ...

2015-05-02
New York Times 20 related

Satya Nadella envisions a Microsoft that is more willing to favor big bets on new technologies over protecting legacy cash cows

if they don't blow it Matt Weinberger / Business Insider : Microsoft's $2.5 billion acquisition of Minecraft makes total sense now Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Central : HoloLens was a huge factor in...

2015-03-09
Forbes 1 related

Inside the life of Minecraft creator Markus Persson after the $2.5B sale to Microsoft

Sundays are for exploring the world via … Tweets: Markus Persson / @notch : There are good journalists out there, presumably. But a lot of them don't give a flying duck about the truth, they just wann...

2015-03-08
Forbes 1 related

Inside the life of Minecraft creator Markus Persson after the $2.5B sale to Microsoft

Inside The Post-Minecraft Billionaire Life Of Gamer God Markus Persson  —  It's 7 p.m. on a Monday in Stockholm, and Markus Persson sits on the terrace of his ninth-story office, sipping the speedball...

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Quarterly Coverage

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TEXXR tracks 90 Techmeme articles mentioning Minecraft, dating back to March 2015. The biggest stories include Mojang Studios will not support or allow NFTs, as they “create models of scarcity and... and A vulnerability in the Apache log4j Java logging library allows for remote code.... Frequently covered alongside Microsoft, Roblox, GitHub, Windows 10, and Apple. Coverage has shifted toward safety, developer themes and away from consumer.

Key Moments

2024Q4developer -50pts
2025Q2enterprise +50pts; consumer -100pts; research +50pts
2026Q2enterprise -50pts; safety +100pts; developer +100pts

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