Indeed. But Tetris was five years old before Nintendo used it to flog millions of Game Boys and drive a generation of gamers mad by lodging Korobeiniki in everyone’s brains. Alexey Pajitnov had drawn ...

We’ve all been there, played the game, trying to fit the next falling piece into the right place to get points and, hopefully, to earn a “Tetris” and get some of the already assembled blocks to ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. There are many beloved video games, but only a rare few manage to permeate mainstream awareness and become cultural icons, and even fewer do so on an ...

Across multiple decades, there isn’t a puzzle game with as big a reach as Tetris. The falling-block puzzle game has sold hundreds of millions since Russian engineer Alexey Pajitnov developed the ...

Sputnik burned up in the atmosphere, Berlin is now one city, but 25 years later, the Soviet-designed Tetris remains one of the most popular and ubiquitous video games ever created. It has sold over ...

From its humble Russian roots to its hallowed position today as a gaming legend, Tetris showed everyone that slamming blocky shapes together and demolishing walls of colorful bricks weren't the sole ...

With a new Apple TV+ film starring Taron Egerton focusing on the puzzle game's 1980s origin story, Thomas Hobbs asks the experts why Tetris has retained such enormous popularity, nearly 40 years on.

It’s hard to preview a game you’ve been playing most of your life – especially one that has no narrative, little in the way of visuals and long history of success in its simplicity. But, I’m going to ...