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34-Year-Old Tetris Game Finally Conquered by Kid

34-Year-Old Tetris Game Finally Conquered by Kid

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How does one “beat” Tetris? Until now everyone assumed you don’t. The game has no end; it just keeps increasing in speed until it becomes impossible to keep up with. It’s true that a lot of older arcade games, which were designed to have no end, have one because the game will bug out if you play it long enough. But…Tetris? Naw, there’s no such thing as a “kill screen” for Tetris or we would’ve heard about it by now, right? Turns out you CAN beat Tetris, or at least one version. The semifinals for the 2023 Tetris World Championship were held yesterday and the game used was the NES version (the one by Nintendo, not Tengen). It was believed that the game would crash if you could reach Level 155, but no human has ever made it that far. No human, that is, until the one who calls himself Blue Scuti. He got the kill screen during the tournament, and he’s only 13. Don’t count on replicating this yourself.

The Trailer For Apple’s Tetris Movie Is Out

The Trailer For Apple’s Tetris Movie Is Out

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Through the years, as so many video games have been adapted into movies, it’s been a commonly told joke that eventually somebody would get desperate enough to make a movie out of Tetris. Apple actually announced such a movie not too long ago. The common assumption was that a Tetris movie would be about giant bricks falling from the sky and crushing cities, but the actual film we’re getting has a better reason for being than that. The Tetris movie is about how Tetris escaped Soviet Russia to become a global phenomenon, which is a fascinating story. If you don’t know that story yet, The Gaming Historian did an excellent video all about it (see below), but the Spark Notes summary is this: Tetris was invented by Russian programmer Alexei Pajitnov using ASCII art on his primitive 80s computer. The game had the potential to be big, but Russia was still under Communist control, which meant the State would own the game, not Pajitnov. Nintendo rep Henk Rogers caught wind

Tetris 99 Gains “Big Block” DLC Pack

Tetris 99 Gains “Big Block” DLC Pack

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When Nintendo launched their subscription online service, they promised “special surprises” would be on the way, with the image of a giant cartoon present box filling the screen as the only hint. Given Nintendo’s track record, the “surprises” could have been anything from useless to awesome. Fortunately the surprise they revealed earlier this year, Tetris 99, was on the “awesome” side. Tetris 99 is a battle royale version of Tetris that’s exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers. You enter a match, 98 others enter with you, and you all start feverishly clearing bricks to dump each other out of the game before they do the same to you. It’s tough, and it’s only become tougher as the die-hards have honed their skills. This reporter has personally never witnessed the “Winner” screen… If you have a NSO subscription, Tetris 99 costs nothing….but you can make it cost money if you really want to. Nintendo has introduced the “Big Block” DLC pack, which adds two new modes to Tetris 99 and covers

Is Tetris about to disappear from the eShop?

Is Tetris about to disappear from the eShop?

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There have been rumors floating around that the Nintendo 3DS eShop is about to lose one of the most iconic games in Game Boy history, the original 1989 portable version of Tetris. On December 27, a representative from Nintendo’s UK branch confirmed it in a tweet: “The Game Boy version of Tetris on Nintendo #3DS will be removed from sale on Nintendo #eShop from 31/12/2014.” However….this only confirms the game will be disappearing in the UK. Every single report on the subject that can be gathered only mentions Europe, and releases and rights can be different in separate territories. Europe just got Donkey Kong Land in the eShop and the US is still waiting on it. The rights to Tetris currently rest with Ubisoft, and Nintendo (at least Nintendo of Europe) must have chosen not to re-license with them, letting 1989 Tetris expire at the end of 2014. But there’s no word if this will be a global loss or not. Currently, there are three Tetris games available for purchase

Tetris movie is in the works

Tetris movie is in the works

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In a move that seems like a very late April fools’ joke, Threshold Entertainment has announced that is has acquired the rights to create a movie based on Tetris. The production company today revealed details of a partnership with The Tetris Company that will aim to release Tetris: The Film in the not too distant future. If you are thinking that Tetris seems like an incredibly odd choice for a film, you are not alone. Although the game is incredibly successful, and has been released on almost every platform imaginable, it does not feature a plot of any kind and has no characters other than the blocks that the player controls. A movie adaptation therefore doesn’t seem to make too much sense, especially considering that Threshold Entertainment are describing it as “an epic sci-fi movie”. In the press release announcing the film, Managing Director of The Tetris Company Henk Rogers said: “In this new universe as you’ll soon find out, there’s much more to Tetris than simply clearing lines.” “Everyone

Namco-Bandai TGS Lineup!

Namco-Bandai TGS Lineup!

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EA BRINGS FREE VERSION OF TETRIS TO ANDROID TODAY

EA BRINGS FREE VERSION OF TETRIS TO ANDROID TODAY

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EA Mobile™, a division of Electronic Arts Inc., (NASDAQ: ERTS) and the world’s leading mobile games publisher, along with Blue Planet Software, Inc., the company that manages the exclusive licensing rights to the Tetris® brand, today announced that it will publish a free* version of the Tetris game set to launch exclusively on Android™ smartphones. Published on over 50 platforms and available in more than 185 countries, the Tetris game is one of the most-played video games in the world and has been embraced by hundreds of millions of fans globally. The free version of Tetris joins the recently launched SCRABBLE Free as EA’s second free offering on the Android platform.