With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for ...

A 16-year-old, two-time Tetris world champion made video game history over the weekend by becoming the first player to pull off a “rebirth,” the moment when Level 255 rolls over to reset at Level 0.

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Alexey Pajitnov (right) - Soviet computer engineer and programmer, ...

I was never a big video game person, let alone a devotee of a particular video game like, say, Tetris. Nintendo made that game of falling geometric pieces hugely popular in the ’90s — and it’s now one ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

Although it may seem unlikely, a new Steam game combines the core mechanics of Tetris and DOOM, resulting in a unique hybrid ...

Many game fans have enjoyed the Tetris movie, which chronicled the creation and licensing of Tetris, the addictive game that Alexey Pajitnov created behind the Iron Curtain. His friend Henk Rogers ...

In July of 2011, Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov and Vedran Klanac, a developer and CEO of Ocean Media, teamed up on prototyping a new version of Tetris that Pajitnov had dreamed up – and outlined in a ...

Since debuting in the Soviet Union in 1985, Tetris has been offered on countless platforms, from PCs to video game consoles. The game has been playable in so many different formats, but the strangest ...

An e-sports final for one of the world’s oldest video games has broken a new world record for the largest game of Tetris ever played. The spectacle in Dubai saw more than 2,000 drones replicate the ...