Minecraft takes another incredible step

About a decade after its initial release, Minecraft continues to grow and reach new player records. According to Business Insider, the game has reached a new monthly milestone.

To date, the open-ended sandbox game has more than 112 million players per month. This represents a substantial increase over the 91 million monthly players announced by Microsoft in October 2018. The numbers count players on all platforms: console, PC, mobile and others.

To put the popularity of Minecraft in context, Epic announced in August 2018 that Fortnite had 78.3 million players per month. Meanwhile, the MMO Roblox creation game reached 100 million active users a month in August 2019.

Minecraft still receives regular updates, while the game was added to the Xbox Game Pass in April 2019; this has undoubtedly helped to further widen the footprint of the popular game.

Minecraft boss Helen Chiang told Business Insider that Minecraft was a game that people enjoyed coming back to again and again. "It may not always be the one who is in the foreground because there are a lot of great games that keep coming out, but it's a game they like to come back to," Chiang said. .

Microsoft acquired the franchise and developer Minecraft Mojang in 2014 for $ 2.5 billion. The creator of the Markus "Notch" Persson series is no longer involved in the franchise. He spent $ 70 million in a Beverly Hills mansion, surpassing Beyonce and Jay-Z for the house.

In the future, a Minecraft movie is on the way. Screenwriter Allison Schroeder (Hidden Figures, Frozen 2) was hired to write the final draft of the script. The release of the film for Minecraft is scheduled for March 4, 2022. It is not yet known whether it will be an animation or a live action. or a hybrid, we do not know who can play the main role either. At one point, Steve Carell was apparently linked to the project, but we do not know if it is still the case.

The next new Minecraft game is the AR title of Minecraft Earth, due out later this year.