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I spent the weekend playing Minecraft with a 9 year old, and now I get why Microsoft paid $2.5 billion for it by Matt Weinberger on Sep 26, 2015, 9:32 AM Advertisement
 It's been just over a year since Microsoft snapped up game studio Mojang, the game studio behind smash-hit video game Minecraft, for $2.5 billion. Minecraft is a phenomenon. At any given time, there are as many as three million people playing it. Just this week, we found out that Minecraft is coming to the Facebook-owned Oculus Rift VR headset. Still, Minecraft is a mystery for many, myself included. In an effort to understand just what makes Minecraft such a massive hit, I asked the biggest fans I know — my nephews, nine-year-old Diego and five-year-old Tony, whose mom limits their playing to only a couple of hours a day — to show me the ropes. SEE ALSO: 31 photos of Facebook's rise from a Harvard dorm room to world domination The very first thing I did was download an extremely unauthorized Spider-Man "skin" for my character from the Internet. The kids, used to such wonders, were completely unimpressed. So much for being the cool uncle. 
We decided to try "Creative" mode first, where there are no limits on what you can build, and no real dangers. It drops you into a lush green wilderness, and your only goal is to do whatever you want with it. It's a little bit like the movie "Cast Away," only you have the power to do whatever you want in the world. 
I set to exploring my new island paradise, and quickly encounter this guy. It's an "Enderman," Diego helpfully explains. He looks a little creepy, but he leaves me alone, so I leave him alone. Mostly, he just teleports around and carries blocks. 
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