At the tail end of summer, interactive museum creators Digital Eclipse announced that the next project in its Gold Masters Series would be Tetris Forever. A deep-dive into the 40+ year history of what ...

With its bright colors, easy-to-learn rules and familiar music, the video game Tetris has endured as a pop culture icon over the last 40 years. Many people, like me, have been playing the game for ...

It's now 40 years since gamers began sliding falling blocks around screens to the iconic melody of a Russian folk song. Alexei Pashitnov's puzzle game quickly gained popularity and was played around ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Alexey Pajitnov (right) - Soviet computer engineer and programmer, ...

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 ...

Alexey Pajitnov, the architect of the falling-and-rotating-block puzzle game Tetris, is one of the industry’s most illustrious designers. The calming and chaotic formula he developed as a computer ...

What just happened? Classic puzzle game Tetris was transformed into an aerial art piece in Dubai's night sky over the weekend, fusing gaming, robotics, and large-scale LED technology. While the ...