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Persson revealed on his tumblr blog on 5 August 2011 that he was being sued by a Swedish law firm representing Bethesda Softworks over the trademarked name of Scrolls, claiming that it conflicted with their The Elder Scrolls series of games. Persson noted that he will not be actively involved in development of the game and that Porsér will be developing it. Persson and Jakob Porsér came up with the idea for Scrolls including elements from board games and collectible card games. In December 2014, Persson purchased a home in Trousdale Estates, Beverly Hills, CA for $70 million, a record sales price for Beverly Hills at the time. Under his direction, Mojang contributed a week to developing Catacomb Snatch for the Humble Indie Bundle the $458,248 raised was donated to charity. He is an atheist and has donated to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders). Persson has criticized both piracy and the stance of large game companies on piracy additionally, he is a member of the Pirate Party of Sweden. On 15 August 2012, he announced that he was single again. On 13 August 2011, he married Elin Zetterstrand. Persson is a member of the Swedish chapter of Mensa. He is the central figure of Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, a documentary by 2 Player Productions about the rise of Minecraft and Mojang. Outside of work, he has made seven games for competitions. He is also one of the founders of Wurm Online, though he no longer works on it. Afterwards he worked as a programmer for Jalbum. Professionally he had worked as a game developer for King for over four years, until 2009. Having experimented with various type-in programs he produced his first game at the age of eight, a text-based adventure game. He began programming on his father's Commodore 128 home computer at the age of seven. He lived in Edsbyn for the first seven years of his life before his family moved back to Stockholm. Persson was born in Stockholm, Sweden, to a Finnish mother and a Swedish father on 1 June 1979.
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Microsoft eventually dissociated from Persson following controversial comments regarding topics such as race and gender on his Twitter account. He had continued to work on Minecraft until he left Mojang in November 2014, after its acquisition by Microsoft for $2.5 billion. He retained his position as the lead designer of Minecraft until the game's official launch in 2011, after which he transferred creative authority to Jens Bergensten. Since then, he has gained significant notability within the video game industry, winning multiple awards and establishing relations with the industry's figureheads.
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Persson's principal venture for founding Mojang was Minecraft which gained popularity and support since its tech demo in 2009. He is best known for creating the sandbox video game Minecraft and for founding the video game company Mojang in 2009. Markus Alexej Persson ( Swedish: ( listen) born 1 June 1979), also known as Notch, is a Swedish video game programmer and designer.