Big Minecraft news arrived today from the Twitters Pages from Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson after he retweeted a post from Mojang business director Daniel Kaplan saying that the XBLA version of Minecraft has already sold 3.6 million copies. That 3.6 million number comes shortly after a July tweet from Notch saying the game surpassed 3 million sales.

Daniel Kaplan. Mojang’s business developer, revealed on Twitter today that Minecraft has sold a whopping 9.2 million copies since release.

It seems that Minecraft has a new lead developer in Jens “Jeb” Bergensten. Earlier today, Markus “Notch” Persson posted on his Tumblr that he would be stepping down as lead developer of Minecraft and handing over control to longtime friend and fellow Mojang employee, Jeb.

If you couldn’t get down to Las Vegas for MineCon this week all is not lost. IGN is there and they’re livestreaming the panels for our benefit. Check it out over at IGN. To see what’s coming up click the jump for the schedule of events.

Just a couple months ago, we told you guys about how ZeniMax, the parent company of Bethesda, the developers of epic titles such as the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, were suing small, independent developer Mojang, creators of the indie hit, Minecraft. The crux of the lawsuit was centered around a game that Mojang is currently developing, titled Scrolls. Bethesda felt that the title “Scrolls” was infringing on the intellectual property of [...]

This is it. I will never post another Minecraft video again, and I will do my best to enforce it on the other writers. Because what else is there? Nothing, that’s what. This is the penultimate Minecraft video.

Long ago, when the world was still primitive yet thought of itself as modern, disputes between people and groups would usually be settled in the glory of gladiatorial combat. I think it’s time to bring that form of dispute settlement back. Recently, Bethesda has been growing increasingly worried that their ongoing Elder Scrolls series would be easily confused with Mojang’s upcoming game Scrolls, intervening in Mojang’s trademark application. So Notch, head of Mojang and creator [...]

Looks like Bethesda’s lawyers are desperate for something to do. Some time ago, Markus “Notch” Persson, creator of Minecraft and head of Mojang, began filing for trademarks for games he and his team are working on. “Minecraft” was trademarked with ease, but Mojang’s upcoming game, Scrolls, had some difficulty becoming trademarked. Notch wrote up the full story on his official blog. Bethesda decided to intervene in this trademark application, suggesting [...]

Notch confirmed earlier today that Minecraft 1.7 has been released. The new update adds piston functionality which is sure to be all kinds of useful for anything we can think of! The promised Adventure mode update has been relocated to update 1.8, which hasn’t gotten a date yet.

Minecraft! It’s coming to the Xbox 360! I’m still trying to get over that fact, but it’s slowly sinking in. However, the good folks over at Mojang aren’t stuck with porting the game over to the XBox all on their own.