joystickdivision.com - 10/14/2009
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1984 was the height of the Cold War. People on both sides of the Iron Curtain feared te final nuclear conflagration. But in the Soviet Union, a young programmer named Alexey Pajitnov created a game that would influence the world much more profoundly than the doings of nation-states. That game, ...
Tetris Hair Cut Design for the Brick Headed
walyou.com 8/25/2009 — 8 Comments By Vignyan on August 24th, 2009 in Concepts and Designs Long locks, spikes or the braids might just be excluded from the list of any geek’s idea of a cool hair cut, but the new thing in the hair cut catalog of any geeks might be to get ...
3D Tetris Head Design is Artful yet Industrial Looking
walyou.com 9/16/2009 — 2 Comments By Salazar on September 16th, 2009 in Fun Stuff 3d tetris head We have seen Tetris art, designs, models and so many other things but this specific design has taken Tetris mania to a new level by creating a human head using 3D Tetris blocks, ...
PSP Minis Review – Tetris
playstationlifestyle.net 18 days ago —
Tetris, the world renowned tetrinome-stacking puzzle game, has graced nearly every game console known to man. Now, over 25 years since Alexey Pajitnov created it, it’s been re-released as one of Sony’s new Minis for the PSP and PSPgo.
Almost all gamers have played or at ...
Features - The Man Who Won Tetris
gamasutra.com 9/11/2009 — As the man who licensed Alexey Pajitnov's Tetris for console systems -- as told in historical chronicles that read more like espionage adventures than typical rights negotiations -- Henk Rogers has little explicit need to keep busy. But he's done ...
Tetris Turns 25, and It’s Still an Addictive Pleasure
wired.com 6/4/2009 — Tetris creator Alexey Pajitnov plays the first version of his world-famous game, which turns 25 years old on June 6.
Image courtesy The Tetris Company
When Alexey Pajitnov put the finishing touches on Tetris 25 years ago Saturday, he had no way of knowing his modest videogame would become ...
How Tetris Changes Your Brain
wired.com 9/1/2009 —
Playing Tetris actually gives you more brain to work with, says a new study to be published later this week.
The study, funded by Tetris ‘ makers and authored by investigators at the Mind Research Network in New Mexico, shows that playing ...
Another Take on Tetris' 25th [Tetris]
kotaku.com 6/7/2009 — Time magazine weighs in on Tetris' birthday, implying that it is by far the most lasting success of the Soviet Union. "Sputnik burned up in the atmosphere, Berlin is now one city," Time writes, "but 25 years later, the Soviet-designed Tetris remains ...
Tetris lessons offered at affordable rates
vancouver.en.craigslist.ca 4/17/2009 — In response to the economic downturn, I am offering personal Tetris training sessions on a limited, first-come first-serve basis. I am a patient and non-judgmental coach. Frequently Asked Question: Q: Why should I pay you to train me to play ...
Tetris Turns 25
realmofgaming.com 6/7/2009 — Today marks the 25th anniversary of the greatest puzzle game to ever grace a console of any kind: of course I'm talking about Tetris. It was the game that made the original Game Boy so successful, a game that put a gamepad of some type into the hands of countless housewives and businessmen, as ...
How Tetris conquered the world, block by block
guardian.co.uk 6/2/2009 — That addictive puzzler Tetris – created 25 years ago by Russian Alexey Pajitnov – has a legitimate claim to being the videogame that conquered the world Twenty-five years ago, inside the bowels of the Soviet Academy of Sciences in Moscow, a young ...
Wii Fit Nears 8M US Sales, Wii Play Exceeds 11M —
Gamasutra News 10/13/2009
Nintendo's expanded audience Wii titles are displacing Rockstar North's PlayStation 2 GTA games as the most ubiquitous video games this decade, according to single-platform U.S. sales data from the NPD Group. According to data cited by consumer site ...
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