The real story behind how Tetris became a video game phenomenon is more compelling than most imagined narratives. Much like the game itself, it’s a story that involved a lot of moving pieces that ...

Tetris, like Mario or Pac-Man, is one of those classic game franchises that everyone knows. People who don't play video games have played Tetris before, and the series has been around long enough to ...

Tetris exploded in popularity after a race in the 1980s to secure global rights for the Soviet-made video game, a tale retold in a new movie. It is still captivating minds decades later.

Like many of history’s greatest ideas, Tetris came about quite unintentionally. Alexey Pajitnov was a software engineer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, tasked with testing a new type of ...