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Geek chic: Tetris and Final Fantasy want to keep you warm

Teextile has two new gaming shirts on sale this week. Monday's shirt is this Pac-Man themed one called "Runaway." They also have this construction Tetris T-shirt on sale for Friday. Bot...
Survey says: Tetris is good for your BRAIN!

That guy up there, he was probably made smarter by playing Tetris. Don't you know, it creates geniuses? At least, that's what recent research from the Mind Research Network (also, is that name ma...
Preview: Tetris for PSP Minis

If you've seen my other previews of games on display at last weeks PSPgo launch event, you know that Sony has quite a lineup this holiday season, both on PlayStation Network and UMD. One of the n...
I suck at games: From Russia with fun

[Editor's note: We're not just a (rad) news site -- we also publish opinions/editorials from our community & employees like this one, though be aware it may not jive the opinions of Destructo...
New Tetris games come to Wii and DS next year

Tetris Online. Oh, Tetris Friends. I don't even really like Tetris. I suck at it. But seeing others play, namely Nick Chester and Colette Bennett, and I had to start playing for myself. I hit a w...
Interview: Tetris Friends

As far as fun goes, Tetris Friends Online is serious business. Introduced to the site a few months ago, I spend more time than I should with the site -- an online portal for free, playable varati...
Bacalao! Tetris

Miami. It has beaches. We often go on long walks along the marina with our coked-up  mustached unicorns, collecting seashells and avoiding used condoms and needles. It's a beautiful, multi-c...
Tetris Friends has instant six person multiplayer...sort of

We at Destructoid have recently spent an alarming amount of our free time dicking around with Tetris Friends, a free, online collection of Tetris modes with Mario Kart Wii-esque skill level syste...
Play 6-player Tetris over at Tetris Friends Online

When I sat down to discuss Tetris with Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers, the creator and CEOs of The Tetris Company this past E3, one of the more interesting topics was Tetris' status as a sport. ...
Interview with Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers on Tetris

By far, the most exciting event for E3 wasn't seeing New Super Mario Bros. Wii. It wasn't checking out Left for Dead 2. Facebook and Twitter for Xbox Live, hands-on with the new PSP Go, rocking &...
Google celebrates Tetris' 25th anniversary like Google can

Ok, I'm sure you are all sick of all my coverage of Tetris this E3. Hey, it's not my fault the game is 25 years old (older than me!), and everybody wants to make a big deal about it. I mean, who ...
E3 09: Tetris CEO regrets Tetris Attack!

We’ve been hearing a lot about Tetris this week at E3, and I bet a lot of people would have loved to hear about a sequel to a little game called Tetris Attack. I know the rebranded Panel ...
E3 09: On the future of Tetris as a virtual sport

In an interview I had yesterday with Tetris creator, Alexey Pajitnov, and CEO of The Tetris Company, Henk Rogers, a veritable plethora of interesting information came out. Sure, the typical can b...
E3 09: Tetris documentary for 25 years of blocky goodness.

Out of all events related to Tetris, besides the fact that the game is a quarter of a century old, is definitely the announcement of the 25th anniversary of Tetris for the iPhone. In celebration ...
Videogame music sung sadly

Dtoider Mr PORC and friends have a very ... unique hobby. They like to sing videogame music in a sad way. They even cry a little while singing the songs sometimes. It's a pretty strange hobby, ye...
Quite possibly the biggest game of Tetris ever

Do you love Tetris? Do you have an unreasonable amount of time and patience on your hands? If so, you might want to check out this absolutely massive Tetris game. By my (admittedly poor) math ski...
In Sydney, Tetris is seedy and hangs out in dark alleys

...but no one is scared of you, Tetris. I mean, you're Tetris. Everyone loves you -- including artists. This work, this group of huge Tetris blocks wedged (improperly!) in a narrow alleyway is ca...
Late Night Lulz: The Mega Man 2 and Tetris theme songs get lyrics

Brentalfloss has received a lot of Internet fame as of late thanks to his talent at adding lyrics to videogame songs. He started with giving lyrics to the Dr. Wily level theme from Mega Man 2 and...
Beautiful custom Tetris bracelet could be the perfect Christmas gift

There's a lot of less than impressive offerings out there when it comes to mixing the world of fashion and videogames. Although some of this stuff is cool looking, it seems to be a dime a dozen l...
Tetris clone pulled from iTunes

There's Tetris clones everywhere, right? Well, not on iTunes. The free clone Tris is being pulled after its creator found out that the The Tetris Company isn't digging his version.Noah Witherspo...
Tetris Party gets fall WiiWare release with Balance Board support

1UP is reporting that Tetris Online, Inc. has announced that Tetris Party will be hitting WiiWare this fall.The game is said to include 18 different modes, local multiplayer, and six-player onlin...
WiiWare Tetris to use Balance Board?

In an interview with Siliconera, Hudson had this to say when asked about any new features in its upcoming version of Tetris for WiiWare:It features a number of new rules and items. ...
No, really: Tetris: The Movie

Okay, so not really really. But why not? If they can do a series on grown up Street Fighters or make a movie trailer for Minesweeper, then why not Tetris?Black20 gives us this insane vision of w...
The best Wii hack yet: Tetris hack for Twilight Princess

Like all stories thus far on the Wii homebrew scene, this latest news isn't exciting because it's actually exciting, but rather because it portends great things to come for the future of Wii ho...
Weekend Destructainment: The Wiimote can do anything!

<a href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8020a47e1b" mce_href="http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/8020a47e1b">Backlash&...
The city that Tetris built: Canadian edition

I wish that fixing up the buildings of Toronto, Canada was really as easy as this; summer construction would go a lot quicker, too. Ryerson University student Julian Cardozo created a neat video...
UC Berkeley Marching Band performs the coolest halftime show ever

A couple of weeks ago, UC Berkely had a match against Washington State. During the halftime show, the Cal State Marching Band did one of the coolest performances that I've ever seen since Drumlin...
G8brand brings it on with daring new apparel for gamers

I've seen enough cheesy gamer shirts to last me a lifetime. That's why a company like G8 catches my attention by taking a different type of approach. The concept here is both brand-aware and dyna...
Tetris Splash on XBLA this Wednesday

Everyone's favorite puzzle game is coming to Xbox Live Arcade on Wednesday, in the form of Tetris Splash. While there's a good chance that you already own some version of the puzzler already, thi...
Tetris Splash coming to XBLA with creepy female announcer

It upsets me that this game was not on my radar at all, but a product page for an upcoming Xbox Live Arcade title, Tetris Splash, has crawled out of the woodwork. Exactly what it sounds like, Tet...
Tetris cosplayers fight to the death ... sorta

I found the above video on BoingBoing a few moments ago and while no one seems to know whether these kids are actually trying to harm each other, this is some pre-planned show, or if this is ho...
Boston Globe weaves a LONG tale of intrigue, love and Tetris

World record level classic gaming is a close relative of the sort of low-grade savantism found in chess champions and Dustin Hoffman characters -- it baffles the general public, and is really onl...
There may not be a Doctor Who game after all

In an odd bit of news, good old BlindsideDork sent us a tip from Nintencast, wherein they report that they contacted the BBC regarding the prospective Doctor Who licensed game mentioned first on ...
YTMND Thursday: Poke and the Mon edition

You'll never believe what happened to me last week. I got a call from Bill Cosby! He's a big fan of my work here apparently and loves what  I do. Shortly before calling me, he gave W...
Tetris is keeping women in the kitchen (update)

Doctor Freud would love feminists because they seem to be as obsessed with penises as he was. Mighty Ponygirl over at Feminist Gamers recently wrote a piece about how Tetris is a sexist game. I ...
Man goes flacid during drunk Tetris sex

There's nothing more entertaining than laughing at other people's sexual dysfunctions, especially when they involve Nintendo games. Rocksteady from the NeoGaf forums posted a cautionary e...
Weekend Destructainment: Do you want a mountain of handkerchiefs?

 Ladies and gentleman, allow me to introduce to you the biggest jerk ever. I'm not going to go into detail, just watch the video. Any of you ever pull off a dick move like this before? &...
Tetris in HD! ... wait, what?

So you've sold everything your grandmother owns (including your grandmother) to buy that shiny new HDTV, and now you're probably on the look-out for some fine native 1080p software to pla...
Panel de Pon headed to NDS ... in Japan

This week's Famitsu had some interesting news: one more go-round for Panel de Pon. For those of you unfamiliar with the name, chances are you've taken a shot or two with the game; Pon is ...
THQ set to release Tetris on the 360

After some legal squabble that surely involved many lawyers, THQ is finally ready to release a Tetris game for the Xbox 360. What's going to be so special you ask? How about different skins, ...
Ever wanted to know the history of Tetris?

  You don't? Well, too bad. While searching around on Google Video, I came across this BBC documentary on the history of Tetris, and it's creator Alexey Pajitnov. It's inter...




 
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