Eternal September is now somewhat of an antiquated term, but its relevance as a concept is nonetheless alive and kicking on the internet today. Once upon a time, September was the month when a whole ...

Seventeen months after acquiring Minecraft, Microsoft is adding another building block in its efforts to expand its presence in classrooms. The Redmond, Wash.-based company has acquired MinecraftEdu, ...

Mojang, the creator of Minecraft, was bought by Microsoft for a staggering $2.5 billion in late 2014. The game continues to capture the imagination of millions around the globe, and has especially ...

Microsoft is acquiring a learning tool called MinecraftEdu from Teacher Gaming LLC. Terms of the deal, announced by Microsoft on January 19, were not disclosed. Microsoft is not buying Teacher Gaming ...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced its acquisition of MinecraftEDU, one of the building blocks for its upcoming Minecraft: Education Edition. MinecraftEDU, developed by Teacher Gaming, launched in 2011 as ...

Microsoft is further expanding on its investment in Minecraft, bought in 2014 for $2.5 billion, by acquiring a learning game called MinecraftEdu for an undisclosed sum. The game, produced by a company ...

Microsoft has acquired MinecraftEdu, a version designed by educators for classroom use, and will use it to launch Minecraft: Education Edition, developer Mojang announced this morning. Minecraft: ...

Today, Microsoft-owned game developer Mojang AB announced the launch of Minecraft: Education Edition, a new version of Minecraft for schools that is based on the popular MinecraftEdu mod. “Over the ...

Educators have been tapping into the wildly popular online game Minecraft for its potential as a learning tool for a while now -- to teach physics, math, and computer science. But until recently, the ...

Cross-posted from the Marketplace K-12 blog. Less than two years after it announced plans to acquire the developer of the wildly popular game Minecraft, Microsoft says it will buy a school-friendly ...

Starting this summer, classrooms hooked on MinecraftEDU will be given the option of migrating to a new education-focused Minecraft title, recently announced by Microsoft who has acquired the rights to ...

Set for a summer 2016 free trial release, it builds on MinecraftEdu - “a version of Minecraft built for the classroom" - that has been used in over 40 countries, according to a statement from Mojang, ...