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?
The hardest lesson taught by Tetris is that success isn’t infinitely sustainable. Those blocks are going to get unmanageable at some point.
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.
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.
Stop-motion Tetris games are a dime a dozen. But indulge us for a moment. This one uses a fantastic amount of paper.
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!).
There’s a guy out there who uses Tetris to create pixel art, and he just completed one of Luigi, nine months after a Mario effort that took 98 minutes start to finish.
With more than 132 million paid downloads on mobile phones, EA Mobile gives the Tetris sales a rest and just gives it away for Android devices. It can be found in the Android Market right now. Go play.