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Minecraft mothership sales pass 11 million

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The core Mac and PC version of Minecraft has now accumulated a whopping 11 million sales.

Mojang makes no secret of its sales figures, displaying them proudly right on the sandbox title's website; as spotted by Gamespot, the counter crossed 11 million today.

What makes the milestone particularly notable is that sales seem to be accelerating; Minecraft only passed 10 million sales in April, and it has been available for purchase since May 2009, with official post-beta release in November 2011.

The Xbox 360 Edition has totted up over 6 million sales via download alone and seems to be performing strongly at retail. The Pocket Edition has generated 10 million sales. It's coming to Xbox One, too.

Mojang started as just two guys and has since grown into a team with multiple irons in the fire. Minecraft creator Markus "Notch" Persson is understandably suffering second novel syndrome.

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Brenna Hillier: Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.
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