Los Angeles Times

Column: From Tetris to Block Blast, gaming is a shared language of play

While playing a video game on my mobile device, I saw an ad for a game called Block Blast. The premise of Block Blast is that there is an 8×8 square, and you are given three blocks to fit within the ...
GamesRadar+

Lumines Arise review: "Just as effective as Tetris Effect, block matching to a beat becomes a transcendent experience"

Lumines Arise is just as effective as Tetris Effect, block matching to a beat becomes a transcendent experience with a radically different ruleset. This is an excellent evolution of the PSP original ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Here’s when Kilby Block Party, Utah’s premier homegrown music festival, is coming back

Kilby Block Party will return in 2026 for its seventh year. The festival announced in a video on Instagram that it will return May 15-17. Kilby Block Party started as a celebration for the iconic ...
KVIA

Downtown El Paso transforms with color with Chalk the Block art festival

The 18th annual Chalk the Block Public Arts Festival returns to San Jacinto Plaza in Downtown El Paso this year. It's a weekend-long celebration of creativity bringing together artists from El Paso, ...
The Verge

You Spin Me Round (Like a Record with a falling Tetris block animation)

Enjoy The Ride Records has released a 12-inch EP version of musician Gamer Boy’s Disappearing Lines: Chiptune Music of Tetris album. There’s a couple different versions available for $22.99 each, but ...
WCBD

Moja Arts Festival hosts block party downtown

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Celebrations are well underway for this year’s Moja Arts Festival, with a block party taking place on Wednesday. It’s a celebration of African-American and Caribbean arts and ...
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Falling blocks, rising stakes: Henk Rogers’ 'Tetris' gamble

Experience the captivating true story behind the iconic video game 'Tetris' in this upcoming film. Set in the 80s, follow Henk Rogers, a determined businessman, on his quest to secure the rights to ...
The Michigan Daily

UMich’s OVPR cuts block funding for arts and humanities

This month, the University of Michigan’s Office of the Vice President for Research eliminated “block funding” for the arts and humanities, ending what faculty say was a flow of money that sustained ...
WRIC

Visual Arts Center of Richmond to host Color Block exhibition

RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — The Visual Arts Center of Richmond will unveil Color Block, an exhibition of work by visiting artist-in-residence Eleanor Anderson, on Friday. An opening reception will be held ...
Kaleido Scope

Oct. 3, get jazzed for Endea Owens and The Cookout at the UAB Arts Block Party

The night of music and celebration will kick off at 5 p.m. on 10th Avenue South between 12th and 13th streets South, which will be closed to traffic. Enjoy activity tables, gallery talks with artists, ...
The New York Times

You’re Looking at Art. Someone Blocks Your View. Then What?

For some art lovers, there’s no pathway too narrow for a casual scooch between a spectator and a painting to seem unwise. By Wesley Morris Do you have a question for our culture writers and editors?