MineCon and a costume competition. The event is also featuring info and pre/post show events. During the event, Mojang announced "", a dungeon-crawler spin-off of "Minecraft". At some MINECONs, attendees have received an exclusive in-game cape. MineCon MineCon is a convention for the video game "Minecraft", hosted by Mojang. The first gathering in 2010 was known as MinecraftCon. The MINECON 2011 convention was held in Las Vegas and celebrated the launch of the game with "Minecraft"-related discussion panels and gaming areas. The most recent convention, held in Anaheim, had 12,000 attendees. The latest event, known as MineCon Earth, took place on
Minecraft Over the course of the development, Mojang hired several new employees to work on the project. Mojang moved the game out of beta and released the full version on 18 November 2011. The game has been continuously updated since the release, with changes ranging from new game content to new server hosts. On 1 December 2011, Jens "Jeb" Bergensten took full creative control over "Minecraft", replacing Persson as lead designer. On 28 February 2012, Mojang announced that they had hired the developers of the popular server platform "CraftBukkit" to improve "Minecraft"s support of server modifications. This acquisition also included Mojang