Kotaku: Tetris

Tetris Knows how to Keep a Lady's Legs Warm

Luke Plunkett — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:30:00 EST

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Or if not warm, then at least fashionable. More »

Tetris Tops the Last Nintendo Download Shopping Week Before Christmas

Mike Fahey — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:20:00 EST

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Twas three days before Christmas and all through the Nintendo Download fresh new games both big and small tried desperately to outshine the majesty that is the original Game Boy version of Tetris. More »

Guy Plays Tetris So Fast It Makes My Eyes Bleed

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:00:00 EST

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The Tetris community at Hard Drop is, as you'd expect from people joining up to a community based around the game, pretty damn good at Tetris. More »

Great, Now You Can Pay a Subscription to Play Tetris

Owen Good — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:30:00 EST

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Electronic Arts has figured out a way to make peopLe pay indefinitely for the privilege of playing Tetris. A 99-cent version of the classic puzzler just went live on the iOS store but, obviously, you'll want more than the seven Tetrominoes that buck buys you, right? Right? More »

Video Games Represent Dangerous, Metaphorical Powers in “The Tetris Effect” Short Story

Evan Narcisse — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 16:40:00 EST

The hardest lesson taught by Tetris is that success isn't infinitely sustainable. Those blocks are going to get unmanageable at some point. More »

Listen to the Best New Album of Video Game Music Right Now

Kirk Hamilton — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:00:00 EST

Last week, we streamed a recording of the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing the theme from Modern Warfare 2. This track was from the orchestra's upcoming album named "The Greatest Video Game Music." Today, the album was released, and the nice folks at the London Philharmonic have allowed Kotaku to exclusively stream the entire album for a week. More »

Jimmy Kimmel Smashes Bandstand As Donkey Kong

Brian Crecente — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 13:00:00 EDT

Jimmy Kimmel went full video game for the Halloween airing of Jimmy Kimmel Live. More »

In the Case of the Inferior New Tetris Game, I Declare the 3DS: Not Guilty

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 14:01:00 EDT

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How do you mess up Tetris? The answer, clever reader, is not: "Put it on the Nintendo 3DS." The 3DS isn't the problem. More »

The Pros and Cons of Playing Futuristic Tetris

Stephen Totilo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:00:00 EDT

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Nintendo 3DS will let you play augmented-reality Tetris. Augmented reality. Do you know what that means? Tetris on your desk. Tetris just floating out there in thin air for you to play. More »

1,500 Post-It Notes Created This Tetris Game

Brian Ashcraft — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:20:00 EDT

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Stop motion Tetris games are a dime a dozen. But indulge us for a moment. This one uses a fantastic amount of paper. More »

Enormous Tetris Stop-Motion Animation Created in Minecraft

Owen Good — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:30:00 EDT

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The merry band behind the Bomberman mod for Minecraft have struck again, creating a colossal in-game stop-motion animation of Tetris—complete with a Game Boy surround (and startup screen!). More »

Tetris Art, or, When Life Gives You an L-Piece, Use It to Create Luigi

Owen Good — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:00:00 EDT

Yesterday I featured an obvious 'shop of Game Boy Tetris, purporting to show a playing area whose remaining blocks resembled two people ~~having sex~~ fucking. Boy did I miss the boat. More »

Tetris Porn, or, It's Not the Size of the Line Piece but the Motion of the Squiggle

Owen Good — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 16:00:00 EDT

I'll kill the fun right now by saying this is a 'shop. Can you name at least one reason why it's fake? I'm sure you will. Or, just enjoy some good ole crude junior-high humor as conceived (snicker) on the Game Boy. More »

Free Tetris Is an Excellent Reason to Own an Android Device

Mike Fahey — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:00:00 EDT

With more than 132 million paid downloads on mobile phones, EA Mobile gives the Tetris sales a rest and just gives it away for Android devices. It can be found in the Android Market right now. Go play. More »

The Gaming Tragedies that Didn't Kill Us (But Nearly Broke Us)

Lisa Foiles — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:00:00 EDT

My proudest moments as a tap dancer are displayed in my parents' house in the form of sparkly, obnoxious trophies. More »

iPhone Games Just Aren't Any Fun

Mike Fahey — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 11:20:00 EDT

Commenter St.McDuck is done downloading games for the iPhone and iPod Touch, and he'll tell us why in today's installment of Speak Up on Kotaku. More »

How Video Games Changed Me

Lisa Foiles — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:00:00 EDT

With hairpins jabbing into my brain, an assistant director yelling "Hold the noise!" and a vegan Rice Krispie Treat sitting on the edge of my keyboard that may have actually been a prop, I'm writing this from the set of an independent film—a project that never would have found me if it hadn't been for video games. More »

You Could Own This Copy of Tetris for Only $1,000,000

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:00:00 EDT

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Did you know that the Sega Genesis (nee Mega Drive) version of Alexey Pajitnov's Tetris is exceedingly rare? That there are reportedly only about ten copies of this cartridge in the wild? Then you're probably not in the market for a million dollar copy of Tetris. More »

Five Triumphant Moments in Space Shuttle Gaming

Mike Fahey — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 21:00:00 EDT

Now that the final mission of NASA's space shuttle program is underway, we thought we'd take a look at some of the games influenced by the primitive spacecraft over the years. More »

"Human Tetris" Squeezed Out for Kinect

Brian Ashcraft — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 08:47:00 EDT

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Game show Hole in the Wall, a Western take on a "human Tetris" game, is coming to Kinect. More »

Tetris Hits the 3DS in October

Owen Good — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 23:00:00 EDT

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Tetris, which skyrocketed to all-time popularity on Nintendo's first handheld, will be adapted for its latest. In a statement released today The Tetris Company said Tetris for the 3DS will be shown at E3 and will arrive on shelves in October. More »

The Heroes of Arcade Insanity

Brian Ashcraft — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:00:00 EDT

They might look like regular people, but their gaming skills are anything but. They're superplayers. They take gaming as far as it can physically go. More »

'Human Tetris' Coming To Kinect?

Michael McWhertor — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:00:00 EDT

Looks like Microsoft is turning game show Hole in the Wall, the Western take on Japan's Nōkabe (aka Brain Wall or colloquially "Human Tetris"), into an Xbox 360 game. And, yes, that does seem like a very natural fit for Kinect... More »

Ten Pounds of Gummy Bears Seems Fun

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 17 May 2011 05:00:00 EDT

YouTube user blankchip18 used ten pounds of Gummy Bears to make a stop motion tribute to Tetris, Breakout, Pac-Man and more. More »

Study of 'Game Transfer Phenomena' Examines Why Some Get Tetris-on-the-Brain

Owen Good — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:00:00 EDT

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If you've ever closed your eyes and seen tetrominoes falling into place, or Angry Birds slamming into stone walls, you're experiencing "game transfer phenomena," and it involves more than mentally playing a game long after it's finished. More »

If You Think Competitive Tetris Is Boring, You Are Dead Wrong

Luke Plunkett — Tue, 10 May 2011 07:00:00 EDT

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It may not be as sexy as more modern games like StarCraft II or Modern Warfare, but venerable old Tetris still has its hardcore players, who last year got together for the Classic Tetris World Championship. More »

Tetris Tampons

Owen Good — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:30:00 EDT

Feminine hygiene display in an Italian drugstore. The box reads: "It takes more to say than to do," which idiomatically means, "It's more trouble to do it than to talk about it." Maybe the L-piece is pitching condoms and the squiggle's flacking laxatives. More »

This Game Boy has Been to Space. For Real.

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 04 May 2011 06:20:00 EDT

In 1993, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov blasted off for a trip to the Mir space station. Onboard his Soyuz rocket was this Game Boy, and it can now be yours. More »

Heavenly Tetris Delivers A Miracle From Above

Owen Good — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 23:47:59 EDT

On Wednesday, XKCD - look, if you're reading a video game site at (checks watch) 11:47 PM, then XKCD needs no introduction - offered its vision of Tetris in heaven. Today, someone made that a playable reality. More »

And Here I Was Thinking Tetris Was A Random Game

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 03:40:00 EDT

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I had long believed that the cruel, torturous selection of what bricks are coming next in Tetris was random. Turns out, they're not! Which makes sense. Nothing that cruel can happen by accident. More »

You've Never Heard Tetris, Pac-Man and Mega Man Sound Like This

Michael McWhertor — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 15:40:00 EST

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Composer and sound designer Jake "Virt" Kaufman follows up his Super Mario Bros. hi-def sound design experiment by giving 8-bit games like Tetris, Pac-Man, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda and Contra the "ultra nextgen AAA" sound design treatment. More »

Tetris Decorates a Fridge

Owen Good — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 13:00:00 EST

Reader Edo in Switzerland got a strange compulsion to decorate his refrigerator this weekend. "Not the best Tetris game ever, but a fancier fridge indeed," he writes. Indeed. Naturally, the green squiggly is where this board went wrong. Oh, well ... More »

Play "Human Tetris" with This Kinect Mod

Owen Good — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 19:40:00 EST

Here's another Kinect mod from the "Why haven't they thought of that already?" file. This is a take on "human tetris," one of the premises of Fuji TV game show Tonneruzu, albeit without boat horns, chortling audience, and a Japanese Chuck Barris as the host. More »

Two Upcoming Non-Video Game Versions Of Tetris, Demoed For You

Stephen Totilo — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 20:20:00 EST

There were Tetris games at Toy Fair 2011 in New York City, but they weren't video games. First, this is Tetris the Card Game from Fundex. It's out this month. More »

Nintendo And The Soviet Union Got Along Just Fine

Luke Plunkett — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EST

In today's day and age, if people want to see a whole bunch of Nintendo characters appearing in the same game, they can play Smash Bros. In the 1980s, they could play...Tetris. More »

Tetris Makes World Spending A Little More Understandable

Owen Good — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 21:30:00 EST

Last night President Obama delivered the State of the Union. Written for posterity, perhaps, it's still a policy speech, and policy costs. Here's "Debtris," reminding everyone that, a bilion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money. More »

The Nintendo 3DS Is The Anti-Game Boy

Brian Ashcraft — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:00:00 EST

Inexpensive, low-tech and sporting an impressive battery life, the Nintendo Game Boy was released in 1989. Next month, Nintendo is releasing the 3DS. It's everything the Game Boy wasn't. It is the Anti-Game Boy. More »

Tetrominoes Are Best Friends Forever

Justin Page — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 20:00:00 EST

These two Tetris blocks are pals for life! Another great piece in Aled Lewis' year long "MSCED 2011" illustration series. More »

How About A TV With Built-In Tetris?

Mike Fahey — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 13:30:00 EST

With today's smart television sets capable of packing multiple internet applications directly on the hardware, why not just install games directly on the TV? That's what Oberon Media is doing with Tetris. More »

Super Meat Boy Creator Pleads For Russian Art Aid

Mike Fahey — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:40:00 EST

Russia will be the first country to score a retail release for the PC version of super Meat Boy, and creator Edmund McMillen sends out this moving call for Russian-inspired cover art. Good thing he's okay with the Cold War. More »