Microsoft is working on Minecraft game for Windows Phone

Mojang, the game maker recently acquired by Microsoft, is working on a Minecraft game for Windows Phone. A developer confirmed this on Friday. Microsoft itself has not yet formally confirmed that there will be a variant for its mobile platform.

Developer Tommasso Checchi left Friday night via Twitter that there is a Minecraft for Windows Phone coming. The game is in testing phase. “It’s slow and optimization is necessary. So, completely Mojang-style, the release is ‘soon’,” said Checchi.

The Windows Phone variant of the game, which will most likely go through life as Minecraft Pocket Edition, is the latest addition to the game family. Minecraft is already available for a variety of platforms, including Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Xbox One, as well as PC, iOS, Android and Sony’s PlayStations. Fifty million copies of the game have been sold in the past five years.

Mojang recently came into the hands of Microsoft, which acquired the company for $2.5 billion. The game maker has 28 employees and the company makes a turnover of 224 million euros in a year, with a profit of 97 million euros. According to Checchi was already in the pipeline for the Windows Phone version of Minecraft before the acquisition.