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"Sure, 2011 is in the rearview mirror, but that doesn’t mean we’re done looking back on the year. Sony recently its list of the year’s top-selling games and downloads on the PlayStation Network, and the titles on that list might surprise you — mainly because most of them weren’t released in 2011."
NoobFeed.com is proud to present its most Engrish sounding header yet. 3DS owners will be pleased to know there are 3D blocks inbound and many franchise characters duking it out. Yay, childhood!
"It was just yesterday that we received confirmation of Tetris: Axis's release date, and now we have the first look at the game's boxart! Pretty nifty, eh?"
EA's release of Tetris is avaialbe for free on the Android marketplace today. The game features classic gameplay as well as alternate gameplay modes, and touch controls.
"Sony Ericsson’s Xperia Play PlayStation phone will be landing in the UK on March 31, with six games readily-installed. The Android-powered device will launch on pay monthly deals with all the big UK networks."
Check out five of the best non-fiction flicks about video games to date. Hey, you can't play games all the time, but watching movies about games is the next best thing.
"Oxford University is renowned the world over. The mere mention of their name let's anybody know they are authorities on whatever topic is at hand. For all of those people out there who think videogames do nothing but make problems worse, you may want to listen up: experts at the Oxford University have found that the classic puzzler Tetris could very well treat post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD)."
"In response to the economic downturn, I am offering personal Tetris training sessions on a limited, first-come first-serve basis. I am a patient and non-judgmental coach.
Frequently Asked Question:
Q: Why should I pay you to train me to play Tetris?
A: Tetris is the Greatest Video Game of All Time (Electronic Gaming Monthly, 2007), and studies have demonstrated the beneficial effect that extended sessions of playing Tetris have on things such as hand-eye-coordination, reducing PTSD, ..."
"It has been 25 years since Tetris was released. Despite all of its minor graphical enhancements, Tetris has never really changed. In response to the demands of a more challenging puzzle scenario by todays gamers, Splitcode released its first title called SCRAP! for the iPhone and the iPod Touch."
"Doctors have found that the six hours coming directly after said events are the most important, as that is when the memories of the incident are being put into your memory. What the use of Tetris does, is interfere with those moments. As Ed Young explains:
Tetris, it seems, makes an ideal choice for that. To position its rotating blocks, players need good "visuospatial skills" - they need to see, focus on, and act upon the positions of different objects, all at high speed. These are th..."
"The classic platform game was first released in 1985 and has since become one of the biggest selling ever with more than 40 million copies flying off the shelves worldwide.
In the game brothers Mario and Luigi - now recognised the world over - try to conquer the Mushroom Kingdom in a bid to save Princess Peach.
Super Mario Bros 2 was released in 1988, and Super Mario Bros 3 in 1990. The third version was considered by many as the best, and has sold 18 million to date.
The poll of 2,0..."
"Chatter that Hudson Softs version of Tetris for WiiWare could arrive including support for the Wii Balance Board has intensified today, with word that the developer has both renamed the title and, more significantly, delayed its release from July until simply sometime in 2008.
Siliconera reports that Hudson Soft has held back Tetris WiiWare until an undisclosed date this year, while it has renamed the project to Tetris Party.
Last month Tetris WiiWares developer divulged that they w..."
"From the video post:
This is Mike O'Gorman's concept that I directed and edited. Mike wrote the script and even built large model Tetris blocks that we shot against green screen. I thought we could pull off the special effects if we made them highly stylized. No 3-D animation was used in this piece. Just models, 2-D animation and green screen. We were going for a Tron/Sin City look."
"The stunning MikontaloLights project culminated in a glorious pixel show created and executed at the Tampere University of Technology, which turned the 10-storey Mikontalo dorm building into a colour-splashed canvas displaying various beautiful images and its fully interactive interpretation of Tetris, all via its rigged window system."
A Tetris wedding cake, that's right. The cake was done for the groom of the wedding especially, because of his love for the Tetris game. The topping had the initials of the first name of the bride and groom, and the cake flew fast (meaning everyone loved it). Well who wouldn't, it's a Tetris cake, after all!
The most interesting part was how it was cut. The couple used the 'J' and 'C' pieces to fit it in a line, classic Tetris style.
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