In the fall of 2018, tucked away in a side hall at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, seven-time Classic Tetris World Champion (CTWC), Jonas Neubauer, found himself against the ropes. 37-year-old ...

Perhaps the most significant Nintendo game that’s never previously been rereleased is finally coming to the Switch. The 1989 NES version of Tetris has been added to Nintendo Switch Online’s NES ...

It looks like Switch Online just became a Guinness World Records battleground. Nintendo has added a new title for Switch Online, that may seem mundane, but is actually monumental, particularly because ...

When you think of esports, Tetris likely doesn’t come to mind. Let alone NES Tetris played on original hardware. Yet, this weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo a new Classic Tetris World Champion ...

Nintendo has announced the Game Boy game, Tetris DX, has been added to the Game Boy – Nintendo Switch Online app. This is alongside the previously announced Nintendo Entertainment System game, Tetris, ...

The NES Tetris arms race finally seems to be over— while Tetris (NES) was finally "beaten" at level 157 in December 2023, culminating in the first human-reached "Kill screen" crash, it has always been ...

Nintendo decided to do something special to commemorate today’s special occasion. At the dawn of this year’s The Game Awards, it also happens to be the 40 year anniversary of Tetris, the falling block ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

In the news that we all expected to greet us as we crossed the threshold into 2024, the classic NES version of Tetris has finally been ‘beaten’ for the first time by a very skilled 13-year-old. No ...

A 13-year-old streamer, Blue Scuti, became the first ever human to beat the classic game of Tetris on NES. Blue Scuti broke 3 world records in total — including that monumental accomplishment — during ...

You'd think a game that has been around for almost 35 years would have been beaten by now, but nope. Tetris for the Nintendo Entertainment System is one of the landmark titles from the era that had a ...

Impressive dedication and skill development. I'm curious if that's at the expense of more mundane skills; if not, even more impressive. I'd think that a mod to make the game not crash should be ...