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#study If you've ever closed your eyes and seen tetrominoes falling into place, or Angry Birds slamming into stone walls, you're experiencing "game transfer phenomena," and it involves more than mentally playing a game long after it's finished. More »

#blockparty It may not be as sexy as more modern games like StarCraft II or Modern Warfare, but venerable old Tetris still has its hardcore players, who last year got together for the Classic Tetris World Championship. More »

#screengrab Feminine hygiene display in an Italian drugstore. The box reads: "It takes more to say than to do," which idiomatically means, "It's more trouble to do it than to talk about it." Maybe the T-piece is pitching condoms and the squiggle's flacking laxatives. More »

#inspacenoonecanheartetris In 1993, Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr A. Serebrov blasted off for a trip to the Mir space station. Onboard his Soyuz rocket was this Game Boy, and it can now be yours. More »

#hotflashes On Wednesday, XKCD - look, if you're reading a video game site at (checks watch) 11:47 PM, then XKCD needs no introduction - offered its vision of Tetris in heaven. Today, someone made that a playable reality. More »

Ever wondered how you could go about making Tetris even more of a difficult, punishing experience? Obviously, turning the speed up to infinity isn't enough to stump the world's most proficient players -- but YouTuber user Keysosaurus' Kinect augmented reality Kinect hack might do the trick.

#video Composer and sound designer Jake "Virt" Kaufman follows up his Super Mario Bros. hi-def sound design experiment by giving 8-bit games like Tetris, Pac-Man, Mega Man, Donkey Kong, The Legend of Zelda and Contra the "ultra nextgen AAA" sound design treatment. More »

The PlayStation Store had some noteworthy releases in February: Explodemon, Stacking, Bionic Commando Rearmed 2. But none of these new releases managed to chart in PSN's monthly sales numbers. Instead, you'll see some familiar names on the top 5 list, including Angry Birds, which continues its second month of bestselling sales.
Angry Birds Plants vs. Zombies Tetris Pac-Man Championship Edition DX Mortal Kombat II In addition to Angry Birds, the appearance of a PopCap game, a Tetris game, and a Pac-Man game tell us that casual games are key to making your way to the top of the PlayStation Network.

#screengrab Reader Edo in Switzerland got a strange compulsion to decorate his refrigerator this weekend. "Not the best Tetris game ever, but a fancier fridge indeed," he writes. Indeed. Naturally, the green squiggly is where this board went wrong. Oh, well ... More »

#video Here's another Kinect mod from the "Why haven't they thought of that already?" file. This is a take on "human tetris," one of the premises of Fuji TV game show Tonneruzu, albeit without boat horns, chortling audience, and a Japanese Chuck Barris as the host. More »

No, seriously, watch the video past the break and you'll agree with us. It took YouTube user Shuey187 over 90 minutes -- and, sadly, he never finished the hat.

#toyfair There were Tetris games at Toy Fair 2011 in New York City, but they weren't video games. First, this is Tetris the Card Game from Fundex. It's out this month. More »

EA has announced that it will have both Need for Speed Undercover and Tetris available to play on the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet as soon as it launches this spring. Both titles are currently available on iOS, and considering the success EA has had on that platform, it's a no-brainer to have these games ready to go when the PlayBook is finally released.

Both games will be playable at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain next week, though presumably they'll be more or less the same as the previous mobile versions. Fun fact: the PlayBook version of Tetris marks the 15th platform EA has released the game on so far.

An incarnation of Tetris has managed to find itself on nearly every platform imaginable. So, what's the Tetris Company supposed to do now? It's obvious: break the traditional definition of a platform.

In collaboration with Walls360, Tetris is now "available" to play on your wall. Using adhesive cut-out wall graphics, you'll be able to very slowly play a game of Tetris on your wall. As you imagine the pieces falling down the wall, don't forget that the stickers are re-adhesive, so you can "play" more than one game, if you so wish. Given a set starts at $35, you'll definitely want to get as much replay value as possible.

Now you can have Tetris-themed wall-art that you arrange as you want! The only problem is, these kind of graphics are pretty pricey! You could actually spend up to $200 on some of these pieces. I like the idea, but I don’t think I’m willing to pay that much.

#totalrecall In today's day and age, if people want to see a whole bunch of Nintendo characters appearing in the same game, they can play Smash Bros. In the 1980s, they could play...Tetris. More »

#politics Last night President Obama delivered the State of the Union. Written for posterity, perhaps, it's still a policy speech, and policy costs. Here's "Debtris," reminding everyone that, a bilion here, a billion there, pretty soon you're talking about real money. More »

#nintendo Inexpensive, low-tech and sporting an impressive battery life, the Nintendo Game Boy was released in 1989. Next month, Nintendo is releasing the 3DS. It's everything the Game Boy wasn't. It is the Anti-Game Boy. More »

A World classic is back and bigger than ever on PlayStation Network.