Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers have known each other a long time. The man who created Tetris and the man who (more or less) sold it to the world met 34 years ago in a government office in Moscow.

There is a select group of computer games whose in-game logic is enough for them to simulate computers in themselves. We’ve seen it in Minecraft and DOOM, and now there’s a new player in town from a ...

According to Deadline, the movie is “billed as a sci-fi thriller” that producer Larry Kasanoff says is “not at all what you think,” but will instead be a “cool surprise.” Tetris: The Movie will be a ...

The computer game Tetris may have a special ability to reduce flashbacks after viewing traumatic images not shared by other types of computer game, scientists have discovered in a series of ...

Nathan is a tech journalist from Canada who spends too much money on gadgets. You can find his work on Android Police, Digital Trends, iMore, Mobile Syrup and ZDNET. Nathan studied journalism at ...

IT WAS everyone’s favourite game when it took the world by storm, but first it had to break out of the Soviet Union. Soviet doctors put him in a full leg cast, requiring two to three months of in-home ...

An Imperial alumus has developed a bio-pixel display that can play games such as Tetris, Snake or Pong using the protein that makes jellyfish glow Bixel is a simple self-assembly kit that allows users ...

Editor’s Note: Read more unknown and curious design origin stories here. Like many of history’s greatest ideas, Tetris came about quite unintentionally. Alexey Pajitnov was a software engineer at the ...

Playing 'Tetris' after traumatic events could reduce the flashbacks experienced in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), preliminary research by Oxford University psychologists suggests. Playing ...

ER patients who experienced a car accident were given psychological interventions to prevent PTSD This included playing Tetris, which reduced intrusive memories in those using it by 62% After ...

In 1984 a Russian scientist invented what would become one of the most popular computer games ever; today it is estimated that at least a billion people have played Tetris. It was created in 1984 by ...