The Terrible Truth Of How The Tetris Sausage Is Made

Tetris: it’s just good, clean fun, right? Wrong! You’ve actually been stacking Space Invader body parts like some intergalactic sicko all along. This is the game’s SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE moment, and you can wear it on a t-shirt. [TheDailyWh.at]


July 3, 2010
Science

Water Droplets Create Multilayered Display

Waterfalls have never been this much fun. Sheets of cascading droplets have been turned into a multilayered computer display, suitable for playing Tetris in 3D.


June 16, 2010

Pixels On Fire

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June 6, 2010
Gaming

Life Imitating Tetris

Everywhere you look you see blocks. Everywhere you go you hear “Korobeiniki”. Every step you take, you know that the ground beneath you could cruelly disappear, though at least you’d have some bonus points to show for it…


June 5, 2010

The BP Effort Feels Way Too Much Like This

Watching BP’s continued, repeated failures would almost be funny if it weren’t so gut-wrenching. If only there were a perfect analogy for how it felt watching the unravelling, in hilarious comic strip form. Oh, look, here’s one! [Penny Arcade]


May 26, 2010

Space Pac Tetris Pong Man Invaders! The T-Shirt

I really like this t-shirt featuring an all-in-one of the most famous arcades of all time. I like it even more because an invisible shark is wearing it. [Threadless via Likecool]


January 15, 2010
Gaming

This Tetris Will Make You Vomit

We’re all hardcore fans of Tetris, here at Gizmodo. Or so I thought, until I played this remake of the classic Nintendo Entertainment System version. It’s called First Person Tetris, and it will make you sick.


December 31, 2009
Gaming

Two-Player Tetris Makes My Head Hurt At The Thought

In 25 years, we’ve seen a lot of bastardisations of Tetris, from ice trays to watches to furniture and Russian dorm Tetris. But a two-player Tetris table? That sounds tricky.


December 5, 2009
Gaming

Drink Cocktails Mixed By A Robot Based On Your Mario And Tetris Gameplay

To me, a festival is a field, a few musical acts, pair of rain boots, and heaps of mud. But then, I do live in England. Roboexotica, on the other hand, is robots and cocktails. Much more civilized.


November 6, 2009
Gaming

The Perfect Lego NES Only Plays Bricked Tetris

This full scale Lego NES reproduction is exactly like the original, complete with video and audio connectors, gamepads with flexible cables made out of solid pieces, pushable buttons, and a working front-loading mechanism to insert the included Tetris cartridge.