As a longtime city dweller, I’ve dealt with my fair share of narrow rooms. Twelve feet across is just the standard in old ...

Paleontologist Andre LuJan had an assist from nature with his latest exciting fossil find. Heavy rains helped expose a nearly complete skull of an enormous ancient salamander-like creature in a quarry ...

For many, Tetris Effect felt like the culmination of a journey: the timeless, ‘Perfect Game’ infused with Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s ...

Here are a few strategies I’ve picked up from hundreds of games: Use the "hold" feature to save the long bar for a Tetris Always leave space for vertical pieces on the side Stack flat—jagged stacks ...

Turns out the answer is yes! Here's the lowdown on how Drop Duchy works: like in Tetris and other falling block puzzle games, you have an area where different shaped pieces fall into. You've got your ...

ON A cold February day in the 1970s, 15-year-old Alexey Pajitnov leapt over a pile of snow in Moscow. As he landed, his leg hit the pavement with “a sickening crack”.

That game was Dr. Mario, whose development was led by Yokoi. It's a falling block puzzle game, similar to Tetris, but instead of fitting together oddly-shaped pieces to clear lines, you're ...

A 40-year remix The primary mechanic of Time Warp adds special pieces at random which, once cleared, immediately transport players into a different Tetris game from another era.

In addition to bearing out a long-held piece of "Tetris" Lore, that gave Artiaga enough time to flip out about the fact that he just made history (while the game kept rolling). "Oh my goodness.

Scientists are harnessing the Tetris effect, a phenomenon described by people who play the classic 1980s video puzzle game, to help unlock dreams and treat post traumatic stress disorder.

If a piece falls from the top all the way down to the bottom and you don’t place that block, then it will automatically reverse the game. The idea is to survive as long as you can.