Super League Gaming lets kids play in movie theaters.
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Super League Gaming lets kids play Minecraft in movie theaters

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We don’t have many arcades anymore. But fans of the building game Minecraft can congregate in move theaters to show off their creations and compete against other players.

Super League Gaming will take over more than 80 movie theaters across 28 U.S. cities for a summer tour. Minecraft has been downloaded more than 100 million times, and Microsoft acquired its creator, Sweden-based Mojang, for $2.5 billion last fall.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.