If you fancy yourself an expert Tetris 99 player, you might want to brush up on your skills. Nintendo has announced that a new "Maximus" tournament will be taking place this weekend with a prize of 999 Gold My Nintendo coins for 999 lucky w...

Last week, with no warning, Tetris 99 was unleashed upon the world, and puzzle games will never be the same. Infusing the "me against the world" psychology of the battle royale genre and applying it to the highly accessible, generally non-v...

When Tetris 99 was announced this past week during the Nintendo Direct, it was the first time I'm sure anyone, outside of the developers and Nintendo, had thought to combine the battle royale genre with what is arguably the greatest game of...

This has to be the weirdest news of the day: Nintendo has made a battle royale out of Tetris. Tetris 99 is a competitive multiplayer Tetris game. It's classic Tetris -- all the line-clearing and strategic block placement...

Tetris Effect is such a treasure, and I hope everyone who hasn't taken a chance on it yet considers doing so soon. The limited-time demo is coming back on Friday, February 8 and it'll be playable until Monday, February 11. (Note: you'll nee...

In case you aren't aware, Tetsuya Mizuguchi is a legend. In addition to working on cult favorites like Space Channel 5, he also lent his talents to Rez, Lumines, and Meteos: three of the most recognizable rhythm games in existence. A recent...

If you're reading this, then congratulations are in order. It would seem, against all the odds, we've made it to the very end of 2018. Overall, 2018 was yet another nightmarish hellscape, but we're not here to talk about the world at l...

Every weekend from here on out, Tetris Effect players will gather together to play a few specified modes in hopes of reaching a collective point total to unlock a shiny new avatar. This went largely overlooked during the first Weekend Ritua...

How do you modernize an icon like Tetris? Simple: You leave the mechanics alone! Tetris Effect is the same perfect puzzling we know and love, but so much care has gone into enhancing every other facet of the experience. It's Tetris by way o...

Tetris Effect seems poised to cement itself as the go-to modern Tetris, and this weekend is your best bet to check it out before release. Enhance Games has put out a limited-time demo that's now live on PlayStation Network. It's just as mes...

Tetris Effect is intriguing as hell. You have surrealism king Tetsuya Mizuguchi (Rez, Lumines, Child of Eden) mixed with Tetris with optional VR: what could go wrong? It'll arrive soon enough, but for the time being you'll be able to check ...

"We live in the darkest timeline" is a phrase I can't get behind. Yes, there are some politicians who would rather we scrounge around in the dirt for our daily meals, but it is the scientists that are continuing our march into the future. D...

While virtual reality still feels gimmicky to me - perhaps as a child of the '90s who just remembers Dactyl Attack all to well - there's no denying it maintains an allure that pulls in the people, if not always the dollars. At EGX in Birmin...

A new video has been uploaded featuring gameplay from the upcoming euphoric puzzler Tetris Effect, first revealed earlier this month as the new project from Rez creator Tetsuya Mizuguchi.The four-minute video, taken by Japan's Game Watch, s...

In a pleasant surprise, Sony has just revealed a brand new Tetris game for PS4/PSVR -- Tetris Effect. The moniker comes from the popular phenomenon that involves seeing blocks or puzzle sequences after you close your eyes, and what better p...

(Image courtesy of Cookiemagic) A couple of years ago I took my daughter to a Tetris tournament. It was the first gaming event of any kind for either of us, one held by a local, used video game shop that recently underwent a retooling of ow...

Puyo Puyo Tetris is a gem of a game, one I wasn't sure we would see make it over to PC. But it has! It's out today on Steam for $20, and early impressions of the port sound mostly positive. "The best version of Tetris on PC hands down, and ...

[Update: Confirmed! Check out the trailer below for the PC port, which will launch on February 27.] Some clues have been dropped by Sega recently that may pre-empt a PC release of their quick-thinking, highly addictive puzzle title, Puyo Pu...

Along with loving video games, I'm also a huge fan of learning the history behind the industry. When I stumbled upon "The Gaming Historian" on YouTube in 2016, I had basically hit the jackpot. I've previously linked to his video on the form...

I am fond of a video game mashup or two, so I was stoked when I heard 2 Mello (the composer for 2064: Read Only Memories) was releasing a Streets of Rage mashup album this week. When it came out on Tuesday, I downloaded it right away for li...

I've always loved watching Tetris matches because Tetris is one of the only games I can arguably defend as perfect. So, when you have an arguably perfect game, it's always amazing to see the best players in the world put their skills to ...

If there's a pantheon of gaming, surely Tetris is the god of puzzle games. The satisfying feeling when you manage to clear a row needs no translation, and the Russian export has been played on every continent of the earth. The simple c...

There's been talk of a Tetris film for years, but from the looks of it, the critical failure of movies like Pixels and Battleship may have slowed Hollywood's enthusiasm for adapting toys and games that have no established narratives of thei...

Puyo Puyo Tetris is actually a crossover of the popular Puyo Puyo series and the...you guessed it, Tetris franchise. It's coming to a heap of platforms in the west this year following the 2014 Japanese release, incl...

Puyo Puyo Tetris is a name that doesn't fuck around. This is a game that is Puyo Puyo and it's also Tetris, but sometimes it is both at the same time. That's cold-blooded efficiency, the kind you'd expect from something that is a...