Tetris (12 articles)
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Tech deal: Tetris now free to download from Android Market
Join the blocks 30 August 2011 14:44 GMT TweetEA Mobile has teamed up with Blue Planet Software, the company that manages the exclusive licensing rights to the Tetris brand, to bring Tetris to your Android mobile phone. Not only that, but it'll be free too.
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Best gaming apps for Android
FEATURE Prepare to get addicted 12 April 2011 13:22 GMT TweetIt's Android Week on Pocket-lint and that means we'll be bringing you all the latest info on Google's robot-flavoured OS, as well as a daily round-up of the best apps around. We've already taken a look at the best Android apps for getting out and about...
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: the games
FEATURE How they work and what they’re like 29 March 2011 15:31 GMT TweetThe Sony Ericsson Xperia Play will be hitting stores at the end of this week: 1 April 2011. Fortunately for you, we’ve got our hands on the only mobile phone on the market to carry PlayStation certification and thought we’d have a quick...
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Tetris Link: The Tetris board game
TOY FAIR 2011: 25 years in the making 26 January 2011 12:02 GMT TweetTetris, the video game you’ve known and loved for the last 25 years, is being turned into a board game.
The game, created by traditional board game company John Adams in the UK, has “reworked” the classic idea for kids who...
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Tetris therapy helps to prevent stress
Oxford boffins declare classic game could be a "cognitive vaccine" 12 November 2010 17:19 GMT TweetResearches at Oxford University have concluded that Tetris has psychological healing qualities after studying the effects of the game on people who were exposed to stressful images.
Subjects in the study were shown a video featuring disturbing...
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EA unveils its Windows Phone 7 line-up
Top games for Microsoft's new phone platform 14 October 2010 10:07 GMT TweetOne of the key features that Microsoft was keen to big-up at the Windows Phone 7 launch on Monday was the Xbox LIVE game hub on the console and, in particular, the games partnership with EA.
And now EA has revealed exactly what WP7 Xboxers...
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VIDEOS: Best retro gaming music picks
Get these classics stuck in your head... 18 January 2010 17:59 GMT TweetWith the news just in that the Ivor Novello Awards has announced the Best Original Video Game Score as a new category for this year's awards, it got us thinking wistfully about memorable music from video games past.
In this vein, we've... -
The first 13 PSP Minis on the Playstation Store
Puzzles, shoot-em ups, even football and all under 100MB 1 October 2009 15:03 GMT TweetWe were beginning to think it was never going to happen but, just like that, the PSP Go has arrived and, with it, the much anticipated PSP Minis.
There are 13 to choose from as of today, expected to grow to 50 by the end of the year. Each... -
3D Stereogram Tetris revealed
Gaming gets Magic Eye-type graphics 15 September 2009 10:13 GMT Tweet"If you can see 3D stereograms, why not try a game with the same idea?"
Why not indeed? Squinting at your monitor trying to see the durned image will at least while away a few minutes of your boring work day.
All we got was... -
Tetris goes online with new site
Casual gaming revamp for classic puzzler 30 March 2009 14:44 GMT TweetThe team behind Tetris in the States, that includes Alexey Pajitnov, the original designer and creator of Russian gaming sensation, has given the game a new lease of online life.
A revamped site, the "Tetris Friends" portal, offers a new... -
T-Mobile reveals top 10 Android apps
MWC 2009: And hints at new ones to come 17 February 2009 16:34 GMT TweetHours after Vodafone and HTC announced the new G1 rivalling Android-based "Magic", T-Mobile has revealed the top 10 most popular Android applications - and hinted at new ones to come.
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Tetris bookshelves - good idea, bit hard to fit together...
Made of I, J, L, O, S, T, and Z shaped pieces 18 July 2007 15:25 GMT TweetThese too-cool wooden "Tetrad" shelves come flat-packed so you have to put them together yourself.
Obviously, this has to be done to the accompaniment of the Tetris music, and moving increasingly faster as you progress.
Luckily,...