Minecraft accolades. Social media, parodies, adaptations, merchandise, and the MineCon convention played large roles in popularizing the game. It has also been used in educational environments ("Minecraft Education Edition"), especially in the realm of computing systems, as virtual computers and hardware devices have been built in it. By late 2018, over 154 million copies had been sold across all platforms, making it the second best-selling video game of all time, behind "Tetris". In September 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to buy Mojang and the "Minecraft" intellectual property for , with the acquisition completed two months later. Spin-off games, such as "",
Mojang On 18 October, Markus Persson announced that Mojang had won the interim injunction, but that Bethesda still had the option to file an appeal. In March 2012, Mojang and Bethesda reached a settlement, in which Mojang would not trademark "Scrolls", but Bethesda would not contest Mojang's naming of "Scrolls", so long as it would not be a direct competitor against "The Elder Scrolls". During this time, Persson jokingly asked if Bethesda was willing to play a game of "Quake 3" to settle the dispute. On 20 July 2012, Uniloc filed a lawsuit against Mojang, citing the "Minecraft - Pocket Edition"