For the last eighteen months, Sax Persson has been sitting on the biggest secret in the gaming industry. On the fourth floor of a drab, red-brick office block in the centre of Redmond, Washington ...

It won’t be long before the trees on your street are pixelated and little pigs and other animals are rampaging through neighborhoods — as long as you’re looking through the lens of a smartphone.

Mojang, creator of Minecraft, released a game last year that expands the Minecraft world more than ever before: Minecraft Earth. It’s an app for iOS and Android that puts the blocky, pixelated, ...