Markus Persson never followed up his miracle creation. Neither did Tetris’ Alexey Pajitnov. How come only one of them could ...

Last night, Nintendo dropped an awful lot of things to get excited about if you're a Switch owner. Alongside a Zelda remake, a new game from the makers of Bayonetta, and Super Mario Maker 2, it ...

Michael Artiaga, also known by followers as "Dog", has been competing to break Tetris records, along with his brother Andy, for several years. A US teenager is the first known person to get classic ...

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 ...

The true story about the wild international battle for the licensing rights to the popular game is an exhausting mishmash of genres and narratives—none of which are worth watching. Deputy ...

Before "Halo," before "Call of Duty" and before "Grand Theft Auto," there was "Tetris." The tile-matching game that Alexey Pajitnov created on a whim in 1984 quickly became a global sensation, going ...

Box Brown’s 2016 graphic novel Tetris: The Games People Play explores the creation of Alexey Pajitnov’s Tetris in the grander context of how humans play. The book reaches back 3,500 years to Ancient ...

A peculiar trend has taken over social media, especially TikTok, where users claim that playing Tetris can help process trauma. The idea has sparked curiosity among mental health professionals, ...

Playing Tetris while recalling distressing memories reduced intrusive flashbacks for healthcare workers in a ‘breakthrough’ trial.

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 ...

Because it had to be done.