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 "",
Lego Minecraft Box, the Farm and the Cave were made available in November 2014. Minifigure sized LEGO sets were then later announced in 2014. The prototypes of Creepers, mine carts, and sheep were all being developed as part of a Co-Build Project announced after MineCon, a fan convention. The initial group of minifigre-scaled sets were released from November to December 2014. In May 2018 three new sets in Minecraft universe were announced by the LEGO Group featuring the Skull Arena, Skeleton Attack and Bedrock Adventures. They suppose to come out in August 2018. Mashable listed the first Lego Minecraft set as a