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Falling blocks got the White House a copyright threat
Build the Wall vanished from arcade.gov days after The Tetris Company's warning.
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Tetris and the future of architecture
French architectural genius Axel de Stampa created a dancing ode to Tetris (1984) with the 2014 debut of his gif art gallery Architecture Animée. The introductory image sees large Tetris piece-shaped buildings fall from a blue sky to interlock themselves with the grounded structures below. The resul
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Google’s AI has conquered Tetris. Next up? The world
The robots are not coming for your games.
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I played Swing Copters for an hour and all I got was this lousy sense of depression
Also some medals, a new hat, etc.
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A review of Sokobond, a (fun, we promise) game about chemistry
Neither here nor there.
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This building-side Frogger is the arcade of the gods
As this 22-story-tall Frogger clone in São Paulo proves, major metropolitan areas are quickly becoming skyscraper arcades. Street Crosser, a game with a social cause, joins that giant game of Tetris played over Philly a few weeks ago as the two latest examples of god-sized videogames. But this inst
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Hieronytris turns Tetris into a macabre Bosch masterpiece
Not for the faint-of-anything.
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Tetris on the side of a skyscraper? Tetris on the side of a skyscraper
As part of a celebration of tech in Philadelphia on April 4th, the city is hosting a colossal game of Tetris on the side of a staggering piece of architecture. The Cira Centre, which stretches 29 stories into the night sky, will be lit up with familiar falling tetriminos. Those famous squares, L-pi
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Sirtet reminds us why Tetris was great
Winning isn’t everything.
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When the Tetris blocks cease to fall
Like many, I’ve always had a fascination with Tetris. In Indie Game the Movie, Fez designer Phil Fish says that, alongside The Legend of Zelda and Super Mario Bros., Tetris completes the trifecta, and he’s right. There is something about the futile search for perfection in the inexorable rain of twi
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Player One, Player Two
The story of how videogames united two brothers. And keeps them close.