The popular game minecraft has been around since November 18, 2011. Since then, Minecraft has successfully sold 238 million copies of their game. To put that into perspective, that is 3% of the world's population. The creator of minecraft is markus persson but the current holder of minecraft is microsoft it was sold to them for 2.5 billion dollars. It was originally going to be named cave game for the aspect that you could go into caves but it was changed to minecraft because cave games didn't have enough flavor to it. Minecraft was named after the aspect where you can craft things in game and mine things.