‘calvin and hobbes’ celebrates 30th anniversary

‘Calvin and Hobbes’ Celebrates 30th Anniversary

ByAndrew Scoles

Many years ago, I was looking for something new to read, so I picked up a big book titled The Essential Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson. The cover showed an image of a humanoid tiger tackling a little boy out the door of a house. I was intrigued, so I started to read the comic strips in the…

Celebrating 30 years of addiction: happy birthday tetris!

Celebrating 30 Years of Addiction: Happy Birthday Tetris!

ByCourtney Nicole

Thirty years ago, Alexey Pajitnov released a game he had designed in his lab at the Moscow Academy of Science. It was an innovation on a traditional Soviet puzzle game. Pajitnov released the new game June 6, 1984, and named it Tetris, combining the words “tetrominoes”, because it used five different tetrominoes (geometric shapes composed…