Until, that is, Willis managed on Dec. 21 to trigger a kill screen on Level 157, which the gaming world takes as a victory over the game — something along the lines of pushing the software past ...

But how do you "beat" Tetris when it can seemingly go on ad infinitum? Well, Gibson got to what's called a "kill screen" -- basically the game glitches out and stops entirely. The video is astounding: ...

Tetris is a game that everyone knows. ... If you want a soothing experience, you can slow down the pace with a traditional marathon mode that drops the game over screen.

Play in two modes: A-TYPE, where it's game over when the Tetriminos reach the top of the screen, or B-TYPE, where you'll aim for the highest score you can earn within 25 lines. Tetris is available ...

In the days leading up to that game, Willis had gotten close to inducing a true kill screen. About 38 minutes into the game that would rock the “Tetris” world, he spotted a chance on Level 156 ...

The original design of Tetris hasn’t needed any upgrades in the past 30 years to make it more intense. But Tetris 99, the newly announced battle royale-esque version of the game for Nintendo ...

Tetris, created in the mid-1980s by a Russian computer engineer and marketed to the world with the help of an affable Netherlands-born, New York-bred, Hawaii-based video game designer, is arguably ...

In the new book The Tetris Effect, available September 6, veteran tech journalist Dan Ackerman presents the definitive telling of one of the most fascinating stories in videogame history: How the ...

Tetris Evolution features all the trimmings that have become standard for Tetris games over the past ... Since you're just dropping polygons down the screen, the game of Tetris isn't a whole ...

Tetris, Addictive Video Game, ... When they don't, the blocks begin to stack on top of one another until they fill the screen and the game is over.