One million played Minecraft last Friday

The success for Minecraft rages on and doesn't show any signs of slowing down anytime soon. Last Friday, the game developer Nathan Adams at Mojang tweeted: "There are currently over 998,000 people playing Minecraft right at this moment. It is not even remotely close to being a peak time."

And surely enough, just five minutes later he followed up hos own tweet and wrote: "I could have waited 5 minutes to say 1 million, but nobody would believe that. :D"

How much it climbed from there is unknown, but a million concurrent players is a lot. As we recently reported, Steam broke its own record by having 8,5 million concurrent players a few days after New Year. But that number includes all Steam games, with Dota 2 having the most and clocking in around 900,000 players - which means Minecraft easily beats it.

Around 50% of the Minecraft players are enjoying singleplayer, with the other half playing multiplayer according to Adams who followed up with a third tweet: "Lots of people kept saying "people only play Minecraft in multiplayer", well turns out almost exactly 50% of players are in SP at any moment."