When you think of esports, Tetris likely doesn’t come to mind. Let alone NES Tetris played on original hardware. Yet, this weekend at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo a new Classic Tetris World Champion ...

In the fall of 2018, tucked away in a side hall at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo, seven-time Classic Tetris World Champion (CTWC), Jonas Neubauer, found himself against the ropes. 37-year-old ...

The NES Tetris scene has been booming over the years thanks to the likes of competitions like the Classic Tetris World Championships. As more players discover NES Tetris along with new tricks and ...

A 13-year-old streamer, Blue Scuti, became the first ever human to beat the classic game of Tetris on NES. Blue Scuti broke 3 world records in total — including that monumental accomplishment — during ...

In a nutshell: A crafty group of gamers has found a way to slip custom code into unmodified copies of classic puzzler Tetris on the original Nintendo Entertainment System. It's an exploit that opens ...

In the news that we all expected to greet us as we crossed the threshold into 2024, the classic NES version of Tetris has finally been ‘beaten’ for the first time by a very skilled 13-year-old. No ...

A 16-year-old Tetris player achieved the first-ever "rebirth" by clearing level 255 on a special NES rom version. The gamer set multiple records by reaching level 255 and then looping back to level 0 ...

Dominik Bošnjak is a freelance writer from Croatia. He has been writing about games for as long as he can remember and began doing so professionally circa 2010. If he was forced to pick a favorite ...

Some good news for retro gaming esports as the Classic Tetris World Championship 2020 will be moved online. As is the story with many events in 2020, the CTWC was in jeopardy of not happening after ...

The live-streamed saga featured several nail-biters, including a color-palette glitch that made the rapidly falling blocks even harder to see Reading time 1 minute Over the weekend, 16-year-old ...

Tetris Effect, Enhance’s surprisingly emotional version of classic puzzle game Tetris, is getting competitive and cooperative multiplayer in November with an updated version called Tetris Effect: ...

The 2019 Classic Tetris World Championship is about to officially begin. The world's top Tetris players have all gathered at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo in the heart of Portland, Oregon for this ...