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Microsoft has bought the development studio behind the mega game phenomenon Minecraft for more than $2 billion (£1.2bn), both firms have now confirmed. Minecraft is a web-based sandbox computer game, in which the players can construct an entire world from scratch using various kinds of blocks.

Minecraft has attracted tens of millions of fans because of its retro, pixel-art primarily based graphics and the massive scale during which users can create.