KIPS BAY — Take your Minecraft game to the big screen.
A new gaming service called Super League Gaming will offer Minecraft players a rare chance to sit side-by-side in local theaters, compete and watch their game unfold on the big screen.
Participants can arrive with their friends and their laptops, plug in and log on to a special server which hosts a Minecraft world that appears on the theater's screen in aerial perspective.
Players will be assigned to teams and given mods and timed building challenges — before an all-out, every-kid-for-him-or-herself battle toward the end of the event.
Super League Gaming has been traveling the country hosting in-theater gaming events beginning in Los Angeles last month, and touched down this week for the Big Apple leg of its tour.
The next gaming event will take place at AMC Loews Kips Bay on Wednesday, July 8 at 4 p.m. Tickets cost $20.
Starting on Sept. 14, the Kips Bay theater, as well as the AMC theaters in Times Square and Sheepshead Bay will be hosting six-weeks of Minecraft leagues, with an international competition circuit and prizes. Registration for the league is $120.
