Well it’s now official, Minecraft has finished it’s year-long beta-testing phase and successfully transformed itself into a full retail product according to Minecraft Creator. Notch announced today on his Twitter account to confirm the information.
The code is so complete that Notch told reviewers to go ahead and treat it as review code, claiming that any changes made before the title’s official Friday launch would be minimal. We’ll see if we can snag a retail copy to review.
Reference: @notch