Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox video game created by Swedish game developer Markus Persson and later developed by Mojang. The game allows players to build with a variety of different blocks in a 3D procedurally generated world, requiring creativity from players. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode in which the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, adventure mode where players can play custom maps created
Uniloc Uniloc filed a lawsuit against Mojang, citing the "Minecraft Pocket Edition", as an infringement upon patents claiming exclusive rights to a method of software license checking. Markus Persson of Mojang has stated he does not believe "Minecraft" infringes the Uniloc US patent no. 6,857,067 and that Mojang AB will defend the lawsuit. The same lawsuit was also filed against other Android game developers including Electronic Arts (maker of "Bejeweled 2"), Laminar Research (maker of X-Plane), Distinctive Developments, Gameloft, Halfbrick Studios, Madfinger Games and Square Enix. Uniloc Uniloc Corporation is a computer security and copy protection software company founded in Australia