Minecraft Creator Buys Beverly Hills Home for $70 Million

Markus Persson, the Swedish creator of the video game Minecraft, bought an eight-bedroom, 15-bath Beverly Hills, California, mansion for $70 million.

The price is a record for the neighborhood, according to Sally Forster Jones, Persson’s broker and president of Aaroe International Luxury Properties in Beverly Hills. Persson, who sold his company, Mojang AB, to Microsoft Corp. for $2.5 billion in September, looked at the 23,000-square-foot (2,100-square-meter) home for the first time about a month ago, she said.