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.: June 24, 2002.: September 20, 2002Mode(s),Tetris Worlds is a version of the video game. Originally released in 2001 for and, it was later released for, and in 2002. In 2003, an version and a single-disc compilation version (which included this game and ) were released for the Xbox. The latter was bundled with Xbox systems. The platform-specific versions of Tetris Worlds were developed by three different.

Developed the PC and PlayStation 2 versions, developed the GameCube and Xbox versions, and developed the Game Boy Advance version. All versions were by under license from. The PC, PlayStation 2, Xbox and GameCube versions all feature a female voice as the announcer and the game has been translated and recorded into several languages: French, German, Italian and Spanish. A four-player game of Tetris Worlds.This mode is where the player plays two-minute Tetris games of any variant. This is also where multiplayer games are played. The Arcade mode variants are listed as follows:. Tetris: 'Go for a Tetris'.

A normal Tetris game, where the player plays until he/she loses. Losses occur when the Tetriminos reach the top. Square Tetris: 'Go for a Square'. While the player plays Tetris, they also must try to combine Tetriminos into squares. Lines cleared containing 4x4 Tetriminos cause large bonuses. This variant originated from.

Cascade Tetris: 'Go for a Cascade'.The player must try to clear lines that cause Cascades. Cascades occur when a cleared line cause other Blocks to fall and clear another line. Sticky Tetris: 'Clear the Bottom Line'. Players must try to clear the bottom line of 'Garbage Blocks'. Same-colored Blocks stick together in this mode, hence the name. If 25 same-colored blocks connect, a Critical Mass is formed and are cleared from the Matrix.

This variant originated from 'The Next Tetris'. Hot-Line Tetris: 'Go for a Hot-Line'. In this mode, there are six 'Hot-Lines' in the Matrix.

The player must try to clear lines that are on the Hot-Line. Lines cleared anywhere else earn no points.

Fusion Tetris: 'Activate the Atom Blocks'. In this mode, there is a 'Fusion Block' at the bottom of the Matrix. Players must try to connect falling 'Atom Blocks' to the Fusion Blocks. Atom and Fusion Blocks are not cleared in line clears, and clearing a line containing an Atom or Fusion Block causes a Cascade. Popular Tetris (GBA Version Only): In this hidden mode the game is set up the way the original Tetris game was. The player clears lines to score points and after every 10 lines the level goes up.

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Video of an open-source TetrisTetris is primarily composed of a field of play in which pieces of different geometric forms, called ', descend from the top of the field. During this descent, the player can move the pieces laterally and rotate them until they touch the bottom of the field or land on a piece that had been placed before it. The player can neither slow down the falling pieces nor stop them, but can accelerate them in most versions. The objective of the game is to use the pieces to create as many horizontal lines of blocks as possible. When a line is completed, it disappears, and the blocks placed above fall one rank. Completing lines grants points, and accumulating a certain number of points moves the player up a level, which increases the number of points granted per completed line. In most versions, the speed of the falling pieces increases with each level, leaving the player with less time to think about the placement.

The player can clear multiple lines at once, which can earn bonus points in some versions. It is possible to complete up to four lines simultaneously with the use of the I-shaped tetrimino; this move is called a 'Tetris', and is the basis of the game's title.

If the player cannot make the blocks disappear quickly enough, the field will start to fill, and when the pieces reach the top of the field and prevent the arrival of additional pieces, the game ends. At the end of each game, the player receives a score based on the number of lines that have been completed. The game never ends with the player's victory; the player can only complete as many lines as possible before an inevitable loss.Since 1996, The Tetris Company has internally defined specifications and guidelines that publishers must adhere to in order to be granted a license to Tetris. The contents of these guidelines establish such elements as the correspondence of buttons and actions, the size of the field of play, the system of rotation, and others. Game pieces. The version designed by Spectrum Holobyte contained Russia-related images (Amiga version screenshot, 1988) Conception In 1979, joined the Computer Center of the as a researcher.

While he was tasked with testing the capabilities of new hardware, his ambition was to use computers to make people happy. Pajitnov developed several puzzle games on the institute's computer, an, a scarce resource at the time. For Pajitnov, 'The games allow people to get to know each other better and act as revealers of things you might not normally notice, such as their way of thinking.'

In 1984, while trying to recreate a favorite puzzle game from his childhood featuring, Pajitnov imagined a game consisting of a descent of random pieces that the player would have to turn in order to fill in rows. Pajitnov felt that the game would be needlessly complicated with twelve different shape variations, so he scaled the concept down to, of which there are seven variants. Pajitnov titled the game Tetris, a word created from a combination of 'tetromino' and 'tennis', the latter being Pajitnov's favorite sport. Because the Electronika 60 that Pajitnov used to create the prototype for Tetris had no graphical interface, Pajitnov modelled the field and pieces using spaces and brackets. Realizing that completed lines resulted in the screen filling up quickly, Pajitnov decided to delete them, creating a key part of Tetris gameplay. This early version of Tetris had no scoring system and no levels, but its addictive quality caused it to stand out amongst the puzzle games that Pajitnov had created.Pajitnov, delighted by his game, presented Tetris to his colleagues, who quickly became addicted to it.

The game permeated all the offices within the Academy of Sciences, and within a few weeks it reached every Moscow institute with a computer. A friend of Pajitnov, Vladimir Pokhilko, who requested the game for the Moscow Medical Institute, saw people stop working to play Tetris, and told Pajitnov that 'I can no longer live without your Tetris'.

Pokhilko eventually banned the game from the Medical Institute to restore productivity. Faced with his success, Pajitnov sought to adapt Tetris to the, which had a higher quality display than the Electronika 60. Pajitnov recruited, a 16-year-old high school student who was known for his computer skills and reputed to be a. Pajitnov had met Gerasimov before through a mutual acquaintance, and they worked together on previous games. Gerasimov adapted Tetris to the IBM PC over the course of a few weeks, incorporating color and a scoreboard.Pajitnov then wanted to export Tetris. However, he had no knowledge of the business world, and his superiors in the Academy were not necessarily happy with the success of the game, since they had not intended such a creation from the research team.

Furthermore, did not exist in the Soviet Union, and Soviet researchers were not allowed to sell their creations. Pajitnov asked his supervisor Victor Brjabrin, who had knowledge of the world outside the Soviet Union, to help him publish Tetris. Pajitnov offered to transfer the rights of the game to the Academy, and was delighted to receive a non-compulsory remuneration from Brjabrin through this deal. Acquisition of rights by Mirrorsoft and Spectrum HoloByte In 1986, Brjabrin sent a copy of Tetris to game publisher. From there, clones of the game began circulating via throughout Hungary and as far as. Robert Stein, an international software salesman for the London-based firm Andromeda Software, saw the game's commercial potential during a visit to Hungary in June 1986.

After an indifferent response from the Academy, Stein contacted Pajitnov and Brjabrin by fax in order to obtain the rights to the license. The researchers expressed interest in forming an agreement with Stein.

However, they were unaware that a fax machine had legal value in the Western world, and Stein began to approach other companies to produce the game. Pajitnov was never able to digest this misunderstanding; in an interview with the website Kikizo, he declared 'I don’t really like to talk about that because when I think about those things I lose my sense of humor.' Stein thus took advantage of the 1987 in to approach several publishers. Gary Carlston, co-founder of, retrieved a copy and brought it to. Despite enthusiasm amongst its employees, Broderbund remained skeptical because of the game's Soviet origins. Likewise, co-founder Martin Alper declared that 'No Soviet product will ever work in the Western world.' Stein ultimately signed two agreements: he sold the European rights to the publisher, and the American rights to.

The latter obtained the rights after a visit by Mirrorsoft president Phil Adams in which he played Tetris for two hours. At that time, Stein had not yet signed a contract with the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, he sold the rights to the two companies for £3,000 and a royalty of 7.5 to 15% on sales.Before releasing Tetris in the United States, Spectrum HoloByte CEO Gilman Louie asked for an overhaul of the game's graphics and music. The Soviet spirit was preserved, with fields illustrating Russian parks and buildings as well as melodies anchored in Russian folklore of the time.

The company's goal was to make people want to buy a Russian product; the game came complete with a red package and Cyrillic text, an unusual approach on the other side of the. The Mirrorsoft version was released for the IBM PC in November 1987, while the Spectrum HoloByte version was released for the same platform in January 1988. The game was subsequently ported to other platforms, most notably the,. At the time, the game made no mention of Pajitnov and came with the announcement of 'Made in the United States of America, designed abroad'. Tetris was a commercial success in Europe and the United States: Mirrorsoft sold tens of thousands of copies in two months.

The game sold 100,000 units in the space of a year. According to Spectrum HoloByte, the average profile of a Tetris player was an adult between 25–45 years of age who was a manager or an engineer. At the 'Excellence in Software Awards' ceremony in March 1988, Tetris obtained four awards: Best Entertainment Software, Best Original Game, Best Strategy Program, and Best Consumer Software.Stein, however, was faced with a problem: the only document certifying a license fee was the fax from Pajitnov and Brjabrin, meaning that Stein sold the license for a game he did not yet own. Stein contacted Pajitnov and asked him for a contract for the rights. Stein began negotiations via fax, offering 75% of the revenue generated by Stein from the license. ('Elorg'), the Soviet Union's central organization for the import and export of computer software, was unconvinced by this offer and requested 80% of the revenue.

Stein made several trips to Moscow and held long discussions with Elorg representatives. On February 24, 1988, Stein obtained an agreement with Elorg, which he signed on May 10, 1988, for a ten-year worldwide Tetris license for all current and future computer systems. Pajitnov and Brjabrin were unaware that the game was already on sale and that Stein had claimed to own the rights prior to the agreement.

Although Pajitnov would not receive any percentage from these sales, he decided that 'The fact that so many people enjoy my game is enough for me.' Acquisition of rights by Nintendo and legal battle The situation grew more complex in 1988. Spectrum HoloByte sold the Japanese rights to its computer games and arcade machines to, who was searching for games for the Japanese market. Mirrorsoft sold its own Japanese rights to subsidiary; the latter would then sell the arcade rights to and the console rights to Rogers. At this point, almost a dozen companies believed they held the rights to the game, with Stein retaining rights for home computer versions. Elorg was still unaware of the deals Stein had negotiated, which did not bring money to them. Nevertheless, Tetris was a commercial success in North America, Eurpoe and Asia.The same year, was preparing to launch its first portable console, the.

Nintendo was attracted to Tetris by its simplicity and established success on the. Rogers, who was close to Nintendo president, then sought to recover the handheld rights.

After a failed negotiation with Atari Games, Rogers contacted Stein in November 1988. Stein agreed to sign a contract, but explained that he had to consult Elorg before returning to negotiations with Rogers.

After contacting Stein several times, Rogers began to suspect a breach of contract on Stein's part, and decided on February 1989 to go to the Soviet Union and negotiate the rights with Elorg.Rogers arrived at the Elorg offices uninvited, while Stein and Mirrorsoft manager made an appointment the same day without consulting each other. During the discussions, Rogers explained that he wished to obtain the rights to Tetris for the new Game Boy console, following the success of the game on the NES. After quickly obtaining an agreement with Elorg president Nikolai Belikov, Rogers showed Belikov a cartridge of the game. Belikov was surprised, as he believed at the time that the rights to Tetris were only signed for computers systems. The present parties accused Nintendo of illegal publication, but Rogers defended himself by explaining that he had obtained the rights via Atari Games, which had itself signed an agreement with Stein. Belikov then realized the complex path that the license had followed within four years because of Stein's contracts, and he constructed a strategy to regain possession of the rights and obtain more favorable commercial aggreements. At that point, Elorg was faced with three different companies who wished to buy the rights.During this time, Rogers befriended Pajitnov over a, and Pajitnov would support Rogers throughout the discussions, to the detriment of Maxwell, who came to secure the Tetris rights for Mirrorsoft.

Belikov proposed to Rogers that Stein's rights would be cancelled and Nintendo would be granted the game rights for both home and handheld consoles. Rogers then flew to the United States to convince Nintendo's American branch to sign up for the rights. The contract with Elorg was signed by and for $500,000, plus 50 cents per cartridge sold. Elorg then sent an updated contract to Stein. One of the contract's clauses defined a computer as a machine with a screen and keyboard, and thus Stein's rights to console versions were withdrawn.

Stein signed the contract without paying attention to this clause, and he later realized that all the contract's other clauses, notably on payments, were only a 'smokescreen' to deceive him.In March 1989, Nintendo sent a fax to Atari Games concerning production of the NES version of Tetris. Atari Games contacted Mirrorsoft, and were assured that they still retained the rights. Nintendo, however, maintained its position. In response, Mirrorsoft owner pressured Soviet Union leader to cancel the contract between Elorg and Nintendo. Despite the threats to Belikov, Elorg refused to give in and highlighted the financial advantages of their contract compared to those signed with Stein and Mirrorsoft.

On November 1989, Nintendo and Atari Games began a legal battle in the courts of. Atari Games sought to prove that the NES was a computer, as indicated by its Japanese name 'Famicom', an abbrieviation of 'Family Computer'.

In this case, the initial license would then authorize Atari Games to release the game. The central argument of Atari Games was that the Famicom was designed to be convertible into a computer via its extension port. This argument was not accepted, and Pajitnov stressed that the initial contract only concerned computers and no other machine. For its part, Nintendo brought Belikov to testify on its behalf.

Judge Fern Smith then declared that Mirrorsoft and Spectrum HoloByte never received explicit authorization for marketing on consoles, and ruled in Nintendo's favor. On June 21, 1989, Atari Games withdrew its NES version from sale, and thousands of cartridges remained unsold in the company's warehouses.Sega had planned to release a version of Tetris on April 15, 1989, but they cancelled its release during Atari's licensing issues, resulting in fewer than ten copies being printed. A new port of the arcade version by M2 was included in the microconsole, released in September 2019. Commercial success and acquisition of rights by Pajitnov. A-Type game screenshot of the official version of TetrisThrough the legal history of the license, Pajitnov gained a reputation in the West. He was regularly invited by journalists and publishers, through which he discovered that his game had sold millions of copies, from which he had not made any money. However, he remained humble and proud of the game, which he considered 'an electronic ambassador of benevolence'.

In January 1990, he was invited by Spectrum HoloByte to the Consumer Electronics Show, and was immersed in American life for the first time. After a period of adaptation, he explored American culture in several cities, including Las Vegas, San Francisco, and, and engaged in interviews with several hosts, including the directors of Nintendo of America. He marveled at the freedom and the advantages of Western society.

Upon returning to the Soviet Union, he would never stop talking to his colleagues about his travels. He then realized that there was no market in Russia for their programs. At the same time, Nintendo saw sales of the Game Boy – bundled with a handheld version of Tetris – explode, exceeding sales forecasts three times.In 1991, Pajitnov and Pokhilko emigrated to the United States. Pajitnov moved to, where he produced games for Spectrum HoloByte. In April 1996, as agreed with the Academy ten years earlier and following an agreement with Rogers, the rights to Tetris reverted to Pajitnov.

Pajitnov and Rogers founded in June 1996 to manage the game's rights on all platforms, the previous agreements having expired. Pajitnov now receives a royalty for each Tetris game and derivative sold worldwide. In 2002, Pajitnov and Rogers founded Tetris Holding after the purchase of the game's remaining rights from Elorg, now a private entity following the.

The Tetris Company now owns all rights to the Tetris brand, and is mainly responsible for removing illegal clones from the market; the company regularly calls on and to remove illegal versions of Tetris from their mobile. In December 2005, acquired Jamdat, a company specializing in mobile games.

Jamdat had previously bought a company founded by Rogers in 2001, which managed the Tetris license on mobile platforms. As a result, Electronic Arts holds a 15-year license on all mobile phone releases of Tetris. Versions.

A running Tetris (2006)Tetris has been released on a multitude of platforms since the creation of the original version on the. The game is available on most game consoles and is playable on personal computers, smartphones. Has recognized the game as being the most ported in the history of video gaming, having appeared on over 65 different platforms as of October 2010. Since the 2000s, Internet versions of the game have also been developed. However, commercial versions not approved by The Tetris Company tend to be purged due to company policy. The most famous online version, by, had attracted over a million registered users.

Tetris Online had also developed versions for console-based digital download services. Because of its popularity and simplicity of development, Tetris is often used as a project for programmers coding for a new system or programming language.

This has resulted in the availability of a large number of for different platforms. For instance, and contain similar shape-stacking games as easter eggs.Within official franchise installments, each version has made improvements to accomodate advancing technology and the goal to provide a more complete game.

Developers are given freedom to add new modes of play and revisit the concept from different angles. Some concepts developed on official versions have been integrated into the Tetris guidelines in order to standardize future versions and allow players to migrate between different versions with little effort. The IBM PC version was the most evolved from the original version, featuring a graphical interface, colored tetrominoes, running statistics for the number of tetrominoes placed, and a guide for the controls. Computational complexity In, it is common to analyze the of problems, including real life problems and games. It was proven that for the 'offline' version of Tetris (the player knows the complete sequence of pieces that will be dropped, i.e.

There is no hidden information) the following objectives are:. Maximizing the number of rows cleared while playing the given piece sequence. Maximizing the number of pieces placed before a loss occurs. Maximizing the number of simultaneous clearing of four rows. Minimizing the height of the highest filled grid square over the course of the sequence.Also, it is the first, second, and fourth problem. It is, given an initial gameboard and a sequence of p pieces, to approximate the first two problems to within a factor of p 1 − ε for any constant ε 0.It is NP-hard to approximate the last problem within a factor of 2 − ε for any constant ε 0.To prove NP-completeness, it was shown that there is a polynomial between the, which is also NP-complete, and the Tetris problem.

See also:, andThe earliest versions of Tetris had no music. The NES version includes two original compositions by along with an arrangement of 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' from the second act of, composed. The and versions also feature original music, with the exception of an arrangement of ' in the Tengen version. Nintendo's Game Boy version includes three pieces of music as well: ', 's (BWV 814), and an original track by Tanaka. 'Korobeiniki' is used in most later versions of the game, and has appeared in other games, albums and films that make reference to Tetris. In the 2000s, The Tetris Company added as a prerequisite for the granting of the license that a version of 'Korobeiniki' be available in the game. Cognitive effects.

See also:According to research from Dr. Richard Haier, et al. Prolonged Tetris activity can also lead to more efficient brain activity during play. When first playing Tetris, brain function and activity increases, along with greater cerebral energy consumption, measured by metabolic rate. As Tetris players become more proficient, their brains show a reduced consumption of glucose, indicating more efficient brain activity for this task. Moderate play of Tetris (half-an-hour a day for three months) boosts general cognitive functions such as 'critical thinking, reasoning, language and processing' and increases thickness.In January 2009, an Oxford University research group headed by Dr.

Emily Holmes reported in that for healthy volunteers, playing Tetris soon after viewing traumatic material in the laboratory reduced the number of flashbacks to those scenes in the following week. They believe that the computer game may disrupt the memories that are retained of the sights and sounds witnessed at the time, and which are later re-experienced through involuntary, distressing flashbacks of that moment. The group hopes to develop this approach further as a potential intervention to reduce the flashbacks experienced in but emphasized that these are only preliminary results.Professor Jackie Andrade and Jon May, from 's Cognition Institute, and Ph.D. Student Jessica Skorka-Brown have conducted research that shows that playing Tetris could distract from cravings and give a 'quick and manageable' fix for people struggling to stick to diets, or quit smoking or drinking.Another notable effect is that, according to a Canadian study in April 2013, playing Tetris has been found to treat older adolescents with (lazy eye), which was better than patching a victim's well eye to train their weaker eye. Robert Hess of the research team said: 'It's much better than patching – much more enjoyable; it's faster, and it seems to work better.' Tested in the, this experiment also appears to help children with that problem.The game has been noted to cause the brain to involuntarily picture Tetris combinations even when the player is not playing (the ), although this can occur with any computer game or situation showcasing repeated images or scenarios, such as a.

While debates about Tetris's cognitive benefits continue, at least some researchers view it as a milestone in the gamification of education. Reception and legacy ReceptionReview scoresPublicationScoreArcade:C64:Macintosh:NES (Tengen):NES (Nintendo):77%94%9/1098%95%AwardsPublicationAwardZzap!64Gold MedalSinclair UserSU Classiccalled the IBM version of Tetris 'one of the most addictive computer games this side of the.

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it is not the game to start if you have work to do or an appointment to keep. Consider yourself warned'. Joked that the game 'proves that Russia still wants to. I shudder to think of the blow to our economy as computer productivity drops to 0'. Noting that Tetris was not copy-protected, he wrote 'Obviously, the game is meant to find its way onto every American machine'. The IBM version of the game was reviewed in 1988 in No.

135 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in 'The Role of Computers' column. The reviewers gave the game 4.5 out of 5 stars.

The Lessers later reviewed Spectrum HoloByte's version of Tetris in 1989 in Dragon No. 141, giving that version 5 out of 5 stars.

Reviewed the Macintosh version of Tetris in 1988, praising its stategic gameplay, stating that ' Tetris offers the rare combination of being simple to learn but extremely challenging to play', and also praising the inclusion of the version, which uses less RAM. Macworld summarized their review by listing Tetris' pros and cons, stating that Tetris is 'Elegant; easy to play; challenging and addicting; requires quick thinking, long-term strategy, and lightning reflexes' and listed Tetris' cons as 'None.'

In 1993, the ZX Spectrum version of the game was voted number 49 in the Official Top 100 Games of All Time. In 1996, Tetris Pro was ranked the 38th best game of all time. Picked the game as the #8 greatest game available in 1991, saying: 'Thanks to Nintendo’s endless promotion, Tetris has become one of the most popular video games.' Computer Gaming World gave Tetris the 1989 Compute! Choice Award for Arcade Game, describing it as 'by far, the most addictive game ever'. The game won three Excellence in Software Awards in 1989, including Best Entertainment Program and the Critic's Choice Award for consumers. Computer Gaming World in 1996 ranked it 14th on the magazine's list of the most innovative computer games.

That same year, listed it as number 2 on their 'Top 100 Games of All Time', commenting that, 'There is something so perfect, so about the falling blocks of Tetris that the game has captured the interest of everyone who has ever played it.' On March 12, 2007, reported that Tetris was named to a list of the ten most important video games of all time, the so-called. After announced at the 2007, the took up the video game preservation proposal and began with these 10 games, including Tetris.In 2007, video game website hosted its sixth annual ', in which the users nominate their favorite video game characters for a popularity contest in which characters participate. The L-shaped Tetris piece (or 'L-Block' as it was called) entered the contest as a joke character, but on November 4, 2007, it won the contest. On June 6, 2009, Google honored Tetris ' 25-year anniversary by changing its logotype to a version drawn with Tetris blocks – the 'l' letter being the long Tetris block lowering into its place, seen here. In 2009, put Tetris 3rd on their list of 'The Top 200 Games of All Time', saying that 'If a game could be considered ageless, it's Tetris'.

The Game Informer staff also placed it third on their 2001 list of the 100 best games ever.' S 100th issue had Tetris as first place in the '100 Best Games of All Time', commenting that ' Tetris is as pure as a video game can get.

When the right blocks come your way - and if you can manage to avoid mistakes - the game can be relaxing. One mislaid block, however, and your duties switch to damage control, a mad, panicky dash to clean up your mess or die.'

Tetris was also the only game for which the list did not specify one or two versions; the editors explained that after deadlocking over which version was best, they concluded that there was no wrong version of Tetris to play. In 2007, Tetris came in second place in 's '100 Greatest Video Games of All Time'. In January 2010, it was announced that the had sold more than 170 million copies, approximately 70 million physical copies and over 100 million copies, making it one of the. As of December 2011, Tetris has sold 132 million paid downloads.In 1991, named Tetris one of the 50 best computer games ever.

The editors called it 'incredibly addictive' and 'one of the best games of all time'.There was a hoax that circulated in February 2019 that the original NES instruction manual for Tetris had named the seven tetrominos with names like 'Orange Ricky', 'Hero' and 'Smashboy', but was disproven. Despite being disproven by video game historians, a question on the October 7, 2019 airing of alluded to these names.

In research Tetris has been the subject of academic research. Was the first clinical psychologist to conduct experiments using Tetris. Subsequently, it has been used for research in several fields including the, algorithmic theory, and.During the game of Tetris, blocks appear to onto the lower surface of the window. This has led scientists to use tetrominoes 'as a proxy for molecules with a complex shape' to model their ' on a flat surface' to study the of.

Film has teamed up with The Tetris Company to develop a film adaptation of Tetris. Threshold's CEO describes the film as an epic sci-fi adventure that will form part of a trilogy. In 2016, sources reported on a press release claiming the film would be shot in China in 2017 with an $80 million budget. However, no 2017 or later sources confirm the film ever actually went into production.Tetris appeared in the 2010 short animated film, and in the 2015 movie inspired by the former. See also.