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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Arguably the most perfect piece of media ever created, Tetris is one of those games where it can be handed to anyone and they’ll immediately understand what’s going on. Different shaped blocks fall ...
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 Forever will include 14 classic Tetris titles, as well as one all-new game. Some games included in the compilation are being released outside of Japan for the first time. Tetris Forever will ...
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 ...
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