Minecraft (soundtrack) Minecraft (soundtrack) The soundtrack of the 2011 Mojang video game "Minecraft" was composed by German musician Daniel Rosenfeld, better known as C418. The game's soundtrack is instrumental ambient music, and has been praised by critics. In 2011, the video game blog Kotaku chose the soundtrack as one of the best video game soundtracks of that year. "Minecraft"′s soundtrack was released across two soundtrack albums, "Minecraft – Volume Alpha" (2011), and "Minecraft – Volume Beta" (2013). Both albums include music featured in the game, as well as other music included in trailers, and instrumentals that were not included in the game's
Minecraft in five weeks. The release of the game's PlayStation Vita version boosted "Minecraft" sales by 79%, outselling both PS3 and PS4 debut releases and becoming the largest "Minecraft" launch on a PlayStation console. The PS Vita version sold 100,000 digital copies in Japan within the first two months of release, according to an announcement by SCE Japan Asia. By January 2015, 500,000 digital copies of "Minecraft" were sold in Japan across all PlayStation platforms, with a surge in primary school children purchasing the PS Vita version. "Minecraft" helped improve Microsoft's total first-party revenue by $63 million for the 2015 second