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, ...

As The Verve and Billy Ray Cyrus can probably tell you, a second hit is far from guaranteed. The makers of the original MinecraftEdu know a thing about it too. Those developers, whose company ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Microsoft acquired the creator of the game “Minecraft” in 2014, the giant software company instantly got a cachet bump with children, picking up a blockbuster game app for a generation that ...

More than a year after its $2.5 billion acquisition of Minecraft maker Mojang, Microsoft says it’s buying MinecraftEdu — a version of the game that was created for the classroom — in an attempt to ...

When Microsoft acquired the creator of the game “Minecraft” in 2014, the giant software company instantly got a cachet bump with children, picking up a blockbuster game app for a generation that ...

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 ...

A New York City school teacher has crafted a version of Minecraft for schools called MinecraftEdu. Given the sandbox indie game’s simple premise — a pixelated world of blocks that users manipulate ...

On January 19, 2016, Microsoft (MSFT) announced that the latest addition to its burgeoning acquisition portfolio is MinecraftEdu. MinecraftEdu is a modified version of the popular online game, ...

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 ...