When the Classic Tetris World Championship (CTWC) debuted in 2010, the kill screen was the game’s final, unbeatable boss. Players pushed to get the highest score possible before level 29, at which ...
Like many of history’s greatest ideas, Tetris came about quite unintentionally. Alexey Pajitnov was a software engineer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, tasked with testing a new type of ...
Since its creation 40 years ago, Tetris has remained a universal force in gaming. Perpetually iterated and reimagined, it’s considered to be the most ported game of all time — releasing in some form ...
The real story behind how Tetris became a video game phenomenon is more compelling than most imagined narratives. Much like the game itself, it’s a story that involved a lot of moving pieces that ...
Social media users tore into a Sky News anchor this week after she made a dismissive comment to a 13-year-old gamer in her report on him being the first ever person to beat Nintendo’s version of ...
Turns out Mom was wrong about video games rotting your brain — at least when it comes to Tetris. The block-stacking and puzzle-solving delight first launched in 1984 on the Nintendo Entertainment ...
The action puzzle game Tetris the Grand Master first appeared in game arcades in August 1998, and became a beloved game for gamers as a Tetris game packed with addictive elements. Then, Tetris the ...
The first follow-up to Tetris created by Alexey Pajitnov, Welltris is a beloved variant in which Tetriminos (and other shapes) fall down four sides of a well. Tetris Time Warp All players can now ...
tetris-taron-egerton Taron Egerton will star in a biopic about the creator of Tetris The rumors nobody was spreading are true. Tetris is getting its own movie, and not only has Apple acquired the ...
Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years. Though Apple’s ...
The Tetris movie, which is now streaming free to subscribers on Apple TV+, gets at least one thing absolutely correct about the history of the popular ’80s computer game: The Tetris theme song is a ...
EA is giving up on its mobile Tetris games. Tetris 2011 and Tetris Blitz have disappeared from the Play Store, and in the App Store, EA left a note for fans explaining that it will retire its Tetris ...