May, 2009: Notch began working on Minecraft. He quits his job to concentrate on it totally. When it’s more developed he calls it Cave Game. Notch released the first ever version to the public and calls it Minecraft. The Official Minecraft as we know it now begins.
Minecraft let’s you make anything in blocks.
January, 2010: 100,000 people made Minecraft accounts.
June, 2010: Minecraft reaches Alpha stage. Survival was the only mode available but they make an creative mod. Now there are 200,000 players.
August, 2010: First ever MineCon has been held in Washington State. 50 people attended to it.
December, 2010: Minecraft wins Indie Game of the Year from IndieDB. Minecraft Beta mode is released and additions include splash text and also egg-throwing.
March 2011: Minecraft wins GDC Award for Best Debut Game, Best Downloadable Game and the Game Innovation Spotlight
July 2011: 10 million registered Minecraft players
October 2011: The Pocket Edition of Minecraft is released for Android
November 2011: MineCon held in Las Vegas. 5,000 people attended. During Minecon, Minecraft 1.0.0 is released and Minecraft is officially out of Beta. New additions include the enderdragon, mooshrooms and villagers.
March 2012: Minecraft version 1.2.1 is released. New additions include the biomes. One of them is jungle biome. Other additions are ocelots, cats and iron golems.
May 2012: Minecraft for the Xbox 360 is released and over 400,000 copies are sold in the first day.
November 2012: MineCon is held in Disneyland, Paris. There are 6,500 people that attend.
December 2012: Minecraft sells 453, 000 copies of minecraft all across the world on Christmas Eve alone.
January 2013: Minecraft sells more than 20 million copies of minecraft on the PC/Mac, Xbox 360 and mobile devices.
March 2013: Minecraft version 1.5(aka “The Redstone Update”) is released. Quartz blocks and other related blocks are added.
April 2013: Minecraft Pocket Edition and PC/Mac Editions sold more than 10 million copies each.
July 2013: Minecraft version 1.6(aka “The Horse Update”) is released. Horses, carpet and hardened and stained clay blocks are added.
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