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Considering that Battleship is a real, actual movie that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to create, it’s a travesty that this Tetris movie trailer by Warialasky isn’t currently being turned into a feature-length film by a major studio.
Just saying.
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The latest in MIT’s long tradition of campus hacks took place last Friday night, when students turned the school’s Green Building into an enormous, playable Tetris game.
According to the official MIT hack gallery, “hackers have long considered “Tetris on the Green Building” to be the Holy Grail of hacks, as the side of the building is a wonderful grid for the game.”
Sure, TU Delft did it first, but the MIT version is perhaps the coolest-looking “building Tetris” hack ever.
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Tetris Desk Lamp of the Day: The Tetris Company has unveiled an officially-licensed Tetris desk lamp that includes light-up versions of all 7 of the game’s famous tetrominos.
The pieces can be stacked any way you want, and they light up when they touch. And unlike in actual Tetris, I’m pretty sure you’d win if you managed to pile up enough of these to reach all the way to the ceiling.
The lamp will be available in September and retail for around $50.
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Post-It Tetris of the Day: Some folks at the Visualization Center in Norrköping, Sweden recreated a Tetris game using over 1500 Post-It notes and nine windows.
Stop-motion sticky notes? Well, I guess we know what Ubisoft Montreuil and BNP Bank employees will be doing at work tomorrow.
[kotaku]
Tetris Art of the Day: Video game artist Shuey187 is an expert at building patterns and shapes out of your everyday Tetris game.
After taking on a Mario build earlier this year, the Tetris genius gave in to his fan base (after dedicating a heart shape to them) and created a build of Mario’s brother Luigi.
[joystiq]
Tetris Addict of the Day: James Clewitt, 1999 world Tetris champion, is about to finish his PhD in physics. In “Confessions of a Tetris Addict,” Clewitt tells filmmaker Brady Haran that Tetris is responsible for every job interview he’s ever gotten.
The interview covers Clewitt’s Tertris championship and world record attempts, his non-Tetris career in physics, and a job he once had “doing computers” for a gay phone sex company. He also talks about rubbing shoulders with video game champ (and King of Kong star) Billy Mitchell and Tetris creator Alexei Pajitnov.
It’s good to know that spending hours learning how to flip those T-shapes has paid off for someone.
Gummi Bear Video Games of the Day: Candy-based filmmaker Sam Q. Kim has recreated Tetris, Pac-Mac, Breakout and other classic games using 10 lbs of rainbow gummi bears, and then ate all the candy (with some help, I hope).
It’s innovations like this that remind us how far we’ve come since the early days of home gummi programming, when Bill Gates famously said, “6.4 lbs of gummi bears ought to be enough for anyone.”
Playable Portal Mashup of the Day: This Portal/Tetris mashup is actually playable!
(Hey, nobody said anything about “winnable.”)
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Why Of The Day: Just when you thought Tetris couldn’t get anymore basic, they’ve gone and made it a bored, er, board game. Tetris Links just hit the London Toy Fair and is now coming to the States via the Toy Fair in New York, February 13-16th. Call me old skool… and lazy, but I’d rather play this on a game boy than pick up the pieces myself. Ugh, work.
[photo via Pocket-Lint]
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