Just in time for the big Halloween update Minecraft had sold more than 500 000 copies. About a month ago it had ‘only’ sold 250 000 copies. I must say I didn’t expect the sales to continue at this mind-blowing rate. As of right now the game has sold 524 727 copies and it still sells about 7500 copies a day. That is a really big pile of money the game makes, every day! About 100 000 dollars per day with some rough calculations.

I will write about the Halloween update in a later post, a bit late I know but I want to play it a bit for myself first. :)

PC Gamer has written a preview article about the upcoming  Minecraft Halloween update coming on October 31st. It will tell you about some exiting things to expect and it has some screenshots of what the new ‘hell dimension’ will look like.

Read it here:
http://www.pcgamer.com/2010/10/22/minecraft-halloween-update-preview-meet-the-ghasts/

Coming on October 31 there will be an Halloween update to Minecraft. On the picture below you can read all about the goodies that will come in a few weeks.

Minecraft has now sold more than 250 000 copies, 256 531 right now to be more exact. That’s not bad for a game that is still in alpha, not bad at all. In fact, that’s not bad for any game.

Game sales have slowed down a bit lately but there were still 6500 people who bought a copy in the last 24 hours. That equals 65000 euros in the last 24 hours or in dollars: $87100. 

In total the game will soon have made 3.5 million dollars for it’s creator. Considering that it only took a little more than a year, and it was created by mostly one guy that is a really crazy amount of money.