Minecraft: Pocket Edition sales top five million

Minecraft: Pocket Edition, the mobile version of Mojang’s smash-hit adventure PC game, has sold more than five million copies. Mojang’s Johan Berhardsson tweeted the news this morning, calling the sales “amazing.”

Minecraft: Pocket Edition is available on both Android and iOS devices. It is expected to be updated to version 0.5.1 by the end of January/early February 2013, with online multiplayer set to arrive sometime in the future.

As of yesterday, current Minecraft lead developer Jens Bergensten assumed lead role for Minecraft: Pocket Edition.