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Happy Cloud, a start-up which is trying to speed up game downloads and make them almost instantly playable like streaming gaming services using progressive download technology, has partnered with content delivery network Akamai to boost its performance and make games playable within a couple minutes.

It’s the story of the little game that could. Minecraft, the sandbox title spearheaded by one man, Markus “Notch” Persson, has sold incredibly well for a title with a simplistic concept and a scarce support staff, but we never knew exactly how rich the game had made him.