34 years after the game’s debut, the original Tetris for the NES has officially been “beat” by a human (it was previously only beat by AI), with 13-year old Blue Scuti breaking the game (it reaches a freezing killscreen) during a semi-finals match of the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship

This is a video of musician JER of the Skatune Network reimagining the Tetris A-Type theme in the upbeat, brassy style of a ska song. He does a fantastic job with all those instruments. So good I’m tempted to just say f*ck it to work today and play Tetris for

According to this NES Tetris game manual that Twitter user vecchitto dug up, these are the names of the various Tetris blocks. And here I’ve been calling them L and backwards L blocks, when they’re actually Blue and Orange Rickys! I should have known. Hero and Smashboy are definitely the

This is a video of software engineer Greg Cannon demonstrating the capabilities of StackedRabbit, a NES Tetris playing artificial intelligence system he developed that plays the game with no human reaction time limitations and at 60Hz, making movements as fast as the game allows. In this particular scenario, it also

This is a timelapse video of baggage handler and TikTok user DJSugue demonstrating how he utilizes his Tetris skills to pack everyone’s luggage into the cargo hold in the belly of a commercial aircraft. Neato. I thought the most interesting part of the video is how he’s pretending they don’t

This guy. Man, I feel like he really deserves an award. Or at least a reckless driving ticket. One thing’s for certain though: if you’re playing real-life Tetris, you want this guy on your team. I bet that old codger from Up wishes he’d thought of this. 4/5 stars was

This is a video of snow falling from the metal roof a home in almost perfectly uniform bricks. The person who posted it to Twitter mentioned it reminds them of Klax, an Atari arcade game from 1990. Admittedly, I’m unfamiliar familiar with Klax, but it did remind me of Tetris,

Ever wondered what Tetris would look like with soft, Jelly-like pieces covered in fur? Me neither, at least not in a fantasy I’m willing to admit to, but German softbody animator Chris of C4D4U has decided to show us what it might look like anyways. So the pieces don’t actually