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If you are one of the many people who have bought the Pebble smart watch and you’re looking to get a little more out of the device, you’re in luck because it seems that after providing a rudimentary SDK to developers, a developer by the name of Robert Hesse has managed to cobble together what looks like a Tetris clone for the Pebble smart watch. Granted it’s not the most advanced of games, but we have to say it is a pretty impressive feat and should make the watch ever so slightly more entertaining. Dubbed “Pebblis”, for those interested in downloading the game you can go ahead and grab the files from the Pebble forum. For those who have tried, let us know in the comments below about how the experience is treating you!

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Tetris is an amazing game. I have played that game for hours upon hours on the funky green screen of my old Game Boy. There have been many different versions of the game that have released over the years, but there’s something just so right about the original. The artist behind these sculptures must have felt the same way, with these clearly Tetris-inspired sculptures.

Swedish artist Michael Johansson has created a series of sculptures, which were assembled using a variety of different household items, stacked perfectly in a Tetris-like fashion. He considered form and function while putting these together. They each ended up as nearly perfect cubes, with different textures and materials.

The only thing that makes these un-Tetrislike is that in the game they would have all disappeared by now thanks to the perfectly stacked lines of stuff.

The sculptures are being shown at the Flat Gallery in Milan, Italy through February 24, 2013. So if you happen to be traveling through the area, you should go check these out.

[via designboom]

With all the Tetris ports we’ve seen to not-quite-digital mediums, there’s been very few truly physical games built around those seven iconic pieces. Hasbro plans to explore that final frontier shortly. It just reached a licensing deal with The Tetris Company to offer “multiple” very tangible games based on Alexei Pajitnov’s original vision. The expansion starts in August, when we’ll see a light-matching, Tetris-themed version of Bop It! and the seemingly inevitable Jenga variant. We’ll have to wait for more details, although we hope Hasbro isn’t too authentic — we’d like a few more straight pieces this time around.

[Image credit: Juanjo Marin, Flickr]

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Given the subject matter, this is usually where the author waxes philosophical about whether — having been accepted by a major international museum — games are indeed “art.” We’re gonna skip that needless exercise today and simply tell you that the New York City Museum of Modern Art is officiating its intake of 14 video game classics as the start of an ongoing gaming collection, set to go on display in March 2013 in the MoMA’s Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries — the same galleries that house an original iPod and more. The games range from Buckner & Garcia inspiration Pac-Man to modern classic Portal, and even includes some lesser known gems (vib-ribbon, anyone?). The MoMA blog calls this initial selection just the “seedbed” for a chunkier collection of around 40 titles, all of which will be part of a “new category of artworks” at the iconic museum. Head below for the full first 14.

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There is just something about laying bricks together in the proper order that has made the game Tetris such a hit. In fact, this particular game has not only remained available until today, you can more or less say that it has thrived – especially when you see it being made available on the world’s most popular social network, Facebook, allowing you to play not only against yourself, but with others as well while introducing different concepts.

The $39.99 Tetris Stackable LED Desk Lamp is one lamp that you can stack up any way you want, subject to the laws of natural physics, of course. This seven-piece interlocking light boasts of extremely bright LED bulbs within, where you stack them in any combination. Whenever they are not stacked together, the LED light will not turn itself on, making it a true blue example of teamwork. Too bad it does look impossible to have a perfect clear.

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