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 ...

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Of the many quotable lines of dialogue you can pick out, it's fitting that the opening quote upon boot up of Tetris Forever may well be its most powerful: "Tetris is the one game that's still going to ...

It was the final match of the 2016 Classic Tetris World Championship, and Jeff Moore, a thirty-six-year-old from Las Vegas, was playing out of his mind. “Boom!” the announcers yelled with each ...

Willis Gibson, a competitive Tetris player prodigy from Oklahoma, advanced so far in the original Nintendo version of the game that it froze. “I can’t feel my fingers,” he said afterward. By Sopan Deb ...

The best player in the world over the last two years is a 14-year-old boy from Fort Worth. One of his main challengers? His 16-year-old brother. By Zach Schonbrun There is, at any given moment, ...

Your browser does not support the video element. Your browser does not support the video element. A few months ago, I began noticing an unusual pattern across my ...