Seventeen months after acquiring Minecraft, Microsoft is adding another building block in its efforts to expand its presence in classrooms. The Redmond, Wash.-based company has acquired MinecraftEdu, ...

As The Verve and Billy Ray Cyrus can probably tell you, a second hit is far from guaranteed. The makers of the original MinecraftEdu know a thing about it too. Those developers, whose company ...

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 ...

When Microsoft acquired the creator of the game “Minecraft” in 2014, the giant software company instantly got a cachet bump with children, picking up a blockbuster game app for a generation that ...

When Microsoft acquired the creator of the game “Minecraft” in 2014, the giant software company instantly got a cachet bump with children, picking up a blockbuster game app for a generation that ...

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 ...

On January 19, 2016, Microsoft (MSFT) announced that the latest addition to its burgeoning acquisition portfolio is MinecraftEdu. MinecraftEdu is a modified version of the popular online game, ...

Starting this summer, classrooms hooked on MinecraftEDU will be given the option of migrating to a new education-focused Minecraft title, recently announced by Microsoft who has acquired the rights to ...

The folks at Mojang have once again upped their game by announcing Minecraft: Education Edition, a new version of the classic game specifically designed with the classroom environment in mind. For ...

Today, Microsoft-owned game developer Mojang AB announced the launch of Minecraft: Education Edition, a new version of Minecraft for schools that is based on the popular MinecraftEdu mod. “Over the ...

A New York City school teacher has crafted a version of Minecraft for schools called MinecraftEdu. Given the sandbox indie game’s simple premise — a pixelated world of blocks that users manipulate ...