Minecraft is a 2009 sandbox indie and arcade video game created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later published by the Swedish company Mojang AB. Markus Persson was inspired to create Minecraft after he and a few friends played Infiniminer. The first published video of Minecraft was called "Cave Game". Only later on did it become Minecraft. In October 2014, Microsoft purchased Mojang AB and the rights to Minecraft for 2.5 billion dollars (US) which was followed by Notch and a few other original developers retiring from the company shortly after. According to Jeb, Minecraft had 24 million copies sold as of September 24, 2016.