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 ...

It was in Moscow that Rogers met Alexey Pajitnov (played by Nikita Efremov), a software engineer at the Soviet Academy of Sciences who created the original Tetris on a rudimentary Electronika 60 ...

The Soviet system didn’t really allow for things like “intellectual property,” “private enterprise” or “rights.” In fact, for worldwide game companies to get programmer Alexey Pajitnov’s creation, ...

Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers have known each other a long time. The man who created Tetris and the man who (more or less) sold it to the world met 34 years ago in a government office in Moscow.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Alexey Pajitnov (right) - Soviet computer engineer and programmer, ...

There’s an addictive quality to Tetris — so addictive that in the Soviet Union, where it was created in 1984, the government blocked it from state computers because it was ruining productivity. A ...

The Tetris movie, which is now streaming free to subscribers on Apple TV+, gets at least one thing absolutely correct about the history of the popular ’80s computer game: The Tetris theme song is a ...

A man has finished building an enormous computer in the sitting room of his bungalow in Cambridge. James Newman started work on the "Megaprocessor", which is 33ft (10m) wide and 6ft (2m) high, in 2012 ...