Minecraft: Pocket Edition is officially 'hotter than the Sun'

How popular is the mobile version of Minecraft? Pretty dang popular, according to developer Mojang's latest blog post. According to the company -- which, by the way, was recently acquired by Microsoft -- Minecraft: Pocket Edition is bigger than Texas, 23 times hotter than the Sun, and "more than the entire observable universe." Of course, if you're looking for actual statistics, Mojang has one of those, too: 30,000,000. That's the number of times the pint-sized version of the game has been purchased.

Debuting long before the free-to-play trend became a "thing," Minecraft: Pocket Edition sells for a whopping US$6.99 on both the iOS App Store and Google Play, and has never really had any price adjustments, which means the game has generated around $210 million in revenue. That's a whole lot of cheddar, and with its lofty App Store ranking, it's probably going to keep bringing in the cash for a long, long time.