Last week Nintendo held its most impressive Nintendo Direct Web show ever, so we talk about all the awesome announcements that were made there (including Tetris!) We also have a good chat about open world games, given two very high-profile ones released this week: Metro and Far Cry. Is the…
Read MoreArticle by Matt S. Nintendo has come full circle, and it’s incredible to think a company is pulling exactly the same tricks that it did decades ago, in those heady early days of video games. It’s even more impressive that the company can surprise and delight in doing so. Related…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. People who love Tetris will love Tetris Effect, because it is Tetris. If I’m stating the obvious, it’s only because this game was being pitched on not being a “pure” Tetris, but rather some kind of fusion between Tetris and the neon-and-music genius that made Rez…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. Yeah, that’s a big call, but I’m making it. Tetris Effect is being brought to us by Sony, and is being developed by the same people behind Rez Infinity and Lumines. In other words, you can expect Tetris Effect to be a ridiculously good game with…
Read MoreReview by Matt S. Both Puyo Puyo and Tetris are action puzzle games in which you need to create specific combinations of objects as they fall down a well-like container, in order to make them disappear and prevent the well from filling up. Despite that similarity, before playing Puyo Puyo…
Read MoreThere are thousands upon thousands of games that have been released over the years. Narrowing them down to a “top 100” was always going to be a challenge, but the whole DDNet team has come together to build a list of the 100 most canonical games that we feel all…
Read MoreReview by Pierre-Yves L. Tetris is the kind of game that you’ll never forget your first experience playing. At first you’ll ask yourself why anyone would find such a simple, basic game would be challenging or interesting. But then then pace of the game starts speeding up, and soon enough…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. A wonderfully brief press release landed in my inbox this morning, with the simple news that Ubisoft has picked up the Tetris license for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. One assumes this means that EA has lost the rights to the license. “We welcome Ubisoft…
Read MoreWhen Tetris Axis launched at retail back in late 2011, it probably didn’t set the sales charts ablaze. The 3DS library was still underdeveloped and the prospect of paying $29.99 USD for yet another revision of the world’s trendiest puzzle game might have been underwhelming to most. Fast forward one…
Read MoreTetris is unarguably the game that cemented the original brick Game Boy as the dominant console in the early era of handheld games. That doesn’t make it worth paying for now for most of us, though. Packed in as a little freebie (a move Nintendo would pull off with equal…
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