Everybody’s played Tetris. Me, I got my start with the Game Boy version a cousin gave me. No case, no instructions, just the cartridge. But I knew what to do because Tetris is eternal. It’s hard to ...

The Escapist goes in-depth on how the Tetris competitive scene was founded and what it meant for the classic block stacking ...

Nintendo decided to do something special to commemorate today’s special occasion. At the dawn of this year’s The Game Awards, it also happens to be the 40 year anniversary of Tetris, the falling block ...

Tetris has released on countless platforms over the years, but it really made a name for itself on Nintendo’s Game Boy handheld. At one point, a version was apparently planned for the Game Boy’s ...

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 ...

Since its creation 40 years ago, Tetris has remained a universal force in gaming. Perpetually iterated and reimagined, it’s considered to be the most ported game of all time — releasing in some form ...

SAN FRANCISCO >> The falling-block video game Tetris has met its match in 13-year-old Willis Gibson, who has become the first player to officially “beat” the original Nintendo version of the game — by ...

In this image taken from video, 13-year-old player named Willis Gibson reacts after playing a game of Tetris. Gibson, who in late December became the first player to officially “beat” the original ...