Blocks: Block Puzzle Games

In Mushroom Heroes, I’m looking at a fast-moving platform over a bed of spikes. Timing my jump is one thing, but…

Early in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I discovered a puzzle shrine containing a small maze. Inside that…

The 3D platformer, the faded genre of Super Mario 64 that flourished two decades ago, was supposed to finally make a…

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time speedrunner Cosmo Wright has constructed one of the trickiest stages I’ve…

Like the delightful and oppressive mobile-game galaxy that it summoned, Tetris is both seductive and dispiriting.…

This week sees the US release of Puzzle & Dragons Z + Super Mario Bros. Edition, which (as the name implies)…

“Creating a game with a new character like Qbby made me feel happier than I’ve ever felt before.” That’s Yasuhiro…

You have probably played Tetris. You have probably watched people play Tetris. You have almost surely not watched…

This'll be easy, I said. How can it not be? The game is too cute to not be easy.

The conventional wisdom is that Nintendo has screwed up. They've lost the plot. Dropped the ball. Somehow sunk their…