Minecraft's original and hugely controversial creator Markus "Notch" Persson has cancelled plans for a spiritual successor to the mammoth block-building phenomenon, six whole days after he "basically announced Minecraft 2."
"I basically announced Minecraft 2," he wrote at the time. "I thought that maybe people actually do want me to make another game that's super similar to the first one, and I'm loving working on games again." Notch had given his social media followers the choice between a Minecraft follow-up and a new "traditional roguelike" with first-person dungeon crawling via a poll, and of course, the successor to the best-selling video game of all time won out.
