The NES Tetris arms race finally seems to be over— while Tetris (NES) was finally "beaten" at level 157 in December 2023, culminating in the first human-reached "Kill screen" crash, it has always been ...

This story has a happy ending at the bottom of the well. A week ago Blue Scuti, AKA Willis Gibson, hit a surprising pinnacle of human achievement; beating the NES version of Tetris by reaching its ...

With the Tetris World Finals held in Dubai earlier this month, we spoke to Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov about all things ...

Since 1989, every single game of Nintendo's Tetris eventually ended the same way: failure. No one had ever "beaten" the game and gotten the bricks to stop falling—until December 21, 2023, when 13-year ...

In a nutshell: A crafty group of gamers has found a way to slip custom code into unmodified copies of classic puzzler Tetris on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. It's an exploit that opens ...