Minecraft dev Mojang made £200m last year

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Minecraft maker Mojang raked in over 2 billion Swedish kronor (£197m) in 2013, the company has revealed.
Of that, 816m kronor was profit (£77.3m) and almost the same amount (£77.8m) went directly to a separate company owned by Minecraft creator Marcus "notch" Persson in licensing fees for the game.
Unsurprisingly, Minecraft accounted for the vast majority of Mojang's revenue, The Wall Street Journal reported, with about 38 per cent earned from the game's PC version, 30 per cent from its lucrative console offspring and 25 per cent from the mobile version.
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