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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...