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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tetris Creator Wants to Turn Puzzler Into Sport [E3 2009]
kotaku.com 6/12/2009 — With more than 125 million copies sold on more than 30 platforms, Tetris is rolling into its 25th Anniversary with a bright future. Alexey Pajitnov developed the puzzle game while working at the Soviet Academy of Sciences in 1985. In 1991, he and ...

Tetris, 25 Years Later [E3 2009]
kotaku.com 6/6/2009 — Today marks the 25th Anniversary of Tetris, the classic puzzle game made by Alexey Pajitnov in Russia. This documentary explores the Tetris Effect and the history of the popular game, explaining how Henk Rogers discovered the game at a Las Vegas trade show and went on to license it from ...

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 ...