Minecraft’ creator Markus ‘Notch’ Persson has “basically announced” a sequel to the game. The developer - who sold the popular open-world building title to Microsoft in 2014 for $2.5 billion - recently revealed he would be working on some new projects in 2025,

When is Minecraft 2 not Minecraft 2? When Notch is making it but can't use any of the ideas that made the first game so amazing, that's when.

Minecraft's original creator Markus Persson has 'basically announced' a sequel to the smash hit sandbox game, but there's one big catch.

Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson has "basically announced" a spiritual successor to the exceptionally popular sandbox game after issuing a poll on social media.

Markus "Notch" Persson has "basically announced Minecraft 2" by his own admission after he released a poll asking fans what game they'd like him to make.

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Markus Persson, aka Notch, has announced he's getting back into game development and is making "basically Minecraft 2."

The original creator of Minecraft, Notch, has announced a spiritual successor on social media. In a poll posted on X, Notch asked the community whether he should continue working on a traditional roguelike or create

Markus "Notch" Persson has "basically announced" Minecraft 2. In an X exchange over the New Year, Persson invited his millions of followers to indicate which project they'd like him to focus on in 2025 - a traditional roguelike mixed with a "tile-based first-person dungeon crawler" or a "spiritual successor" to Minecraft.