Nintendo will be hosting the fourth Tetris 99 "Maximus Cup" this weekend with another 999 Gold My Nintendo coins up for grabs. Much like the previous tourneys that featured them, players simply need to compete during the allotted time and a...

The 35th anniversary of Tetris is this month, and to celebrate the creator Alexey Pajitnov has been doing a kind of celebratory press tour. On the weekend of the actual anniversary he showed up at the Los Angeles Barcade event, and at E3 la...

The final 12 games for Sega Genesis Mini have been announced and there are a few surprises. Darius, a hardcore shmup masterpiece, will be included alongside the exceptionally rare Tetris (that reportedly sold for $1 million some time back)....

So the third major Tetris 99 event is underway this weekend, and it's one worth participating in. For starters if you rack up 100 points you'll unlock a free theme: the original Game Boy color scheme. Breaking down the points system, winnin...

Nintendo has announced that its hit battle royale puzzler Tetris 99 will be receiving some paid DLC. Available immediately on the eShop, the "Big Block" DLC will include offline options for players that aren't so keen on taking the fight on...

Tetris 99 is on a roll. It's universally beloved and it nailed its surprise release the first time around without the early access periods and growing pains most battle royale games go through. Arika and Nintendo are also doing a decent job...

Arika's Tetris 99 just got a very small update on the surface: but for hardcore players, it's quite significant. In short the new patch (version 1.2.0) just altered the sensitivity settings, which now allow for both light and hard drop...

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...