Minecraft: Pocket Edition chisels out 1 million Android sales

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Minecraft: Pocket Edition has passed the one million paid downloads mimlestone on Android platforms, developer Mojang has announced.A Tweet (https://twitter.com/#!/Kappische) from Mojang business developer Daniel Kaplan, as picked up by The Verge (http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/2/2839569/minecraft-pocket-edition-android-one-million-sales), broke the news earlier today."Minecraft - Pocket Edition has now sold more than 1 million copies. Thanks all for the support and I hope you will like the coming updates!" he wrote.There's no word on iOS sales, though it seems to be holding up well on Apple's platform too - it's currently 26th in the paid app chart.It hasn't all been plain sailing for the portable version of Notch's indie phenomenon though. Earlier this year Mojang announced a major rethink of the game's direction following negative feedback from players to a planned update (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-09-mojang-rethinking-minecraft-pocket-edition).

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