Mojang, the creator of Minecraft, was bought by Microsoft for a staggering $2.5 billion in late 2014. The game continues to capture the imagination of millions around the globe, and has especially ...

Longstanding Minecrafters would know what MinecraftEdu is, for the rest, it is a game based on the infamous sandbox title focused on classroom learning. Just as Microsoft bought the original game ...

Microsoft is continuing its mission to find educational uses for Minecraft with the news that it has acquired MinecraftEdu, a company that makes a modified version of Minecraft specifically for the ...

Mojang’s free-form game of building, survival, and exploration isn’t just one of the most popular games of all time — it has also been used extensively in classrooms around the world for the past few ...

More than a year after its $2.5 billion acquisition of Minecraft maker Mojang, Microsoft says it’s buying MinecraftEdu — a version of the game that was created for the classroom — in an attempt to ...

Back in January, Microsoft acquired MinecraftEdu, an organization dedicated to using the popular, blocky game as an educational tool. At the time, it announced that it would make Minecraft: Education ...

Microsoft is getting serious about putting Minecraft in the classroom. On Tuesday,Microsoft and Mojang announced a new, expanded version of the game called Minecraft Education Edition. This ...

Frank is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazine websites. The makers of Minecraft are going all out on education, with a new release of the game designed for classrooms ...

Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was expanding its investment in Minecraft, the popular game it acquired for $2.5 billion in 2014, by building out a new version that would allow teachers ...

Steven Isaacs — @mr_isaacs on Twitter — is a full-time technology teacher in Baskingridge, N.J. He's also the co-founder of a new festival that set the Guinness World Record for largest gathering ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. A version of popular sandbox game Minecraft called "MinecraftEdu" from a third-party developer has been used in classrooms since 2011. Now, Microsoft- ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has announced plans to launch a special release of the company's popular block building ...