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Record breaking video game Minecraft today celebrates it’s 15 year anniversary since it was first released.
The game first released on the 17th of May 2009 by Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios was originally titled Cave Game. In the original prototype players would explore a flat world filled only with cobblestone and grass in the form of pixelated, square blocks.
Little did Mojang know how the game, later titled Minecraft, would take the world by storm becoming the best-selling game of all time with a reported 300 million copies sold since release.
For the first couple of years, Minecraft was only a prototype of what it would become with various alpha and beta versions of the game being released prior to 2013 when the full game finally landed.
Over the years the game has passed through several updates and spin off videogames as well as books and millions of toys. To round things up a Minecraft movie starring Jack Black and Jason Momoa is also currently in production and set to release in 2025.
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