Turns out Mom was wrong about video games rotting your brain — at least when it comes to Tetris. The block-stacking and puzzle-solving delight first launched in 1984 on the Nintendo Entertainment ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Current research shows that playing Tetris after a traumatic event may reduce incidences of intrusive memories.

In 1984, a computer programmer in Moscow, Alexey Pajitnov, created what would soon become one of the world’s most iconic puzzle games. A working relationship with Henk Rogers, head of a software ...

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 ...

Box Brown’s 2016 graphic novel Tetris: The Games People Play explores the creation of Alexey Pajitnov’s Tetris in the grander context of how humans play. The book reaches back 3,500 years to Ancient ...

In January of 2024, Nerdist covered a truly amazing feat in gaming. Willis Gibson, a then-13-year-old prodigy, “beat” the formerly unbeatable: Tetris. Now, most people know Tetris to be the game you ...

There’s an addictive quality to Tetris — so addictive that in the Soviet Union, where it was created in 1984, the government blocked it from state computers because it was ruining productivity. A ...