Tetris

Nintendo

Tetris Tops The Last Nintendo Download Shopping Week Before Christmas

4:20AM December 23, 2011 | Mike Fahey

Twas three days before Christmas and all through the Nintendo Download fresh new games both big and small tried desperately to outshine the majesty that is the original Game Boy version of Tetris. More »


In Real Life

This Guy Plays Tetris So Fast It Makes My Eyes Bleed

6:00PM December 14, 2011 | Luke Plunkett

The Tetris community at Hard Drop is, as you’d expect from people joining up to a community based around the game, pretty damn good at Tetris. More »


Mobile

Great, Now You Can Pay A Subscription To Play Tetris

4:30PM December 2, 2011 | Owen Good

Electronic Arts has figured out a way to make peopLe pay indefinitely for the privilege of playing Tetris. A 99-cent version of the classic puzzler just went live on the iOS store but, obviously, you’ll want more than the seven Tetrominoes that buck buys you, right? Right? More »


In Real Life

Video Games Represent Dangerous, Metaphorical Powers In ‘The Tetris Effect’ Short Story

8:40AM November 10, 2011 | Evan Narcisse

The hardest lesson taught by Tetris is that success isn’t infinitely sustainable. Those blocks are going to get unmanageable at some point. More »


In Real Life

Listen To The Best New Album Of Video Game Music Right Now

10:30AM November 8, 2011 | Kirk Hamilton

Last week, we streamed a recording of the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing the theme from Modern Warfare 2. This track was from the orchestra’s upcoming album named “The Greatest Video Game Music”. Today, the album was released, and the nice folks at the London Philharmonic have allowed Kotaku to exclusively stream the entire album for a week. More »


In Real Life

Jimmy Kimmel Smashes Bandstand As Donkey Kong

4:00AM November 2, 2011 | Brian Crecente

Jimmy Kimmel went full video game for the Halloween airing of Jimmy Kimmel Live. The late night host dressed up as Donkey Kong, at one point tossing a barrel into the bandstand. More »


Nintendo

In The Case Of The Inferior New Tetris Game, I Declare The 3DS Not Guilty

4:01AM September 29, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

How do you mess up Tetris? The answer, clever reader, is not: “Put it on the Nintendo 3DS.” The 3DS isn’t the problem. More »


Nintendo

The Pros And Cons Of Playing Futuristic Tetris

7:00AM September 27, 2011 | Stephen Totilo

Nintendo 3DS will let you play augmented-reality Tetris. Augmented reality. Do you know what that means? Tetris on your desk. Tetris just floating out there in thin air for you to play. More »


In Real Life

1500 Post-It Notes Created This Tetris Game

10:20PM September 26, 2011 | Brian Ashcraft

Stop-motion Tetris games are a dime a dozen. But indulge us for a moment. This one uses a fantastic amount of paper. More »


PC

Minecraft: Enormous Tetris Stop-Motion Animation

4:15PM September 24, 2011 | Owen Good

The merry band behind the Bomberman mod for Minecraft have struck again, creating a colossal in-game stop-motion animation of Tetris — complete with a Game Boy surround (and startup screen!). More »