One theory why Tetris may be an effective mental health tool is that it engages the same parts of the brain active during ...

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There is a select group of computer games whose in-game logic is enough for them to simulate computers in themselves. We’ve seen it in Minecraft and DOOM, and now there’s a new player in town from a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Alexey Pajitnov (right) - Soviet computer engineer and programmer, ...

Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers have known each other a long time. The man who created Tetris and the man who (more or less) sold it to the world met 34 years ago in a government office in Moscow.

If Tetris were a song, it would be Happy Birthday — at least according to The Tetris Company co-founder Henk Rogers. "All the other games are going to go out of fashion and Tetris is still going to be ...

There is a select group of computer games whose in-game logic is enough for them to simulate computers in themselves. We’ve seen it in Minecraft and DOOM, and now there’s a new player in town from a ...

The Soviet system didn’t really allow for things like “intellectual property,” “private enterprise” or “rights.” In fact, for worldwide game companies to get programmer Alexey Pajitnov’s creation, ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In celebration of the puzzle game's 40th anniversary, Digital Eclipse has unveiled Tetris Forever, a new collection coming to Nintendo Switch, PS4, ...

Alexey Pajitnov, the architect of the falling-and-rotating-block puzzle game Tetris, is one of the industry’s most illustrious designers. The calming and chaotic formula he developed as a computer ...