Nintendo makes the old new again with Mario, Zelda, Tetris titles for Switch

The afternoon brought an eventful series of announcements from Nintendo in one of its Direct video promos, and 2019 is looking to be a banner year for the Switch. Here’s everything the company announced, from Super Mario Maker 2 to the unexpected remake of Game Boy classic Link’s Awakening.

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‘Tetris’ is coming to VR as a music-driven game and OMG we don’t deserve this joy

Sure, virtual reality hasn’t fully caught on yet. But a Tetris release ensures that it will never really die.
The venerable falling blocks game is pegged for a PlayStation VR rebirth this fall. It’s called Tetris Effect, and it’s coming from the …

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Turns out Twitter with 280 characters is at least good for one thing: Playing ‘Tetris’

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Thanks to Twitter’s decision to give every user the ability to tweet with up to 280 characters, we now have twice the amount of bullshit to parse through as we scroll through our feeds.

But it’s not all bad; 280 Twitter gave us one thing worth celebrating: Tetris.

There’s a new Twitter account called Play Tetris that utilizes the expanded character limit to allow people to play a very slow, crowd-sourced version of Tetris right on Twitter. The account takes all the suggestions for actions tweeted at it and performs the most requested action after three minutes.

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