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I will admit, Tetris Forever is a lot more thematically appropriate for a 40th anniversary event, but I am ultimately a lot more excited about what Arika can cook up. I guess we'll have to wait and see if there's any online element to this one, or if it's even releasing on PC.

Just not sure what to make of the bizarre TGM tweets. Those seemed way too arbitrary/hastily taken, like, that UI hadn't changed since 2009. Maybe it's an intentional misdirection other Arika execs took down. If this is a TGM4, I wouldn't have expected it to release this year, not with 3 months remaining til' 2025.

It's a solid enough idea, seen in Tetris DS and Tetrio.io. Apparently it was the first draft of a Tetris VS mode.

In the 2-player Tetris the glass had no bottom. The pieces for the first player move from the top, for the second - from the bottom. Two players competed for the space inside.

The real issue with the concept is that it doesn't lend itself well to a lot of interaction between players. It reminds me of Lumines VS. Once a player gets going they just have so much of the field there's not much of a counterplay for the losing player. They're just sorta suffocated, slowly or quickly, and why would the winning player ever decide to screw up their side of the playing field on purpose to deter a comeback?

[cross-platform]

I suppose that does fit the ticket, but when anyone touts cross-platform I'm expecting online multiplayer. The Steam tags say it only has local/split-screen, but the release does cover every modern game console out there. Maybe we'll have to see what comes up when it releases. I'm also expecting a bit more when it says "new", but what can I say? I'm sour when it comes to classic Tetris.

Up to four players will "warp" between different eras of Tetris in real time to experience a variety of classic graphic styles and play mechanics!

Nintendo didn't call NES Remix a brand new game >:)

Proud to be mentioned, and glad to see a guide of this quality not stuck on Google Docs :P
As allspin becomes more relevant after TETR.IO's Season 2 changes I'm looking forward to more stuff like this being published in general. It reminds me a lot of Spinnies, which was somehow created in 2021 :O (I was recently reached out by someone making a similar thing on Onedrive, although I don't know if I can link it atm)

Tetris with Card Captor Sakura is a real keeper. I still think about its OST often, especially this one. Such a pleasant song. I haven't even interacted with the Card Captor Sakura brand outside of that game lol

You actually can't play it on mobile?? That's insane, I honestly didn't even bother to check. Just feels like a given that you should.

I was actually wondering what the heck is up with the Minecraft DLC...Microsoft seriously made TWO of them, unique entities in their own right on the Minecraft Marketplace. Do they even interact with each other?? This whole release strategy doesn't make sense to me, I noticed immediately that this was "old news", because I already recognized "Minecraft Tetris" as something that released 2 months ago...

• Tetris Add-On by Minecraft (the older one)
• Tetris by Minecraft

It's been a good 3 years since Puyo Puyo Tetris 2 released. Before that, Tetris Effect was released in 2018, but honestly, it's hard to imagine what could be better than that one. Earlier in May this year, TTC reportedly claimed that there was in fact going to be a new huge Tetris® release.....tangibly soon.

The Tetris Co. teamed up with an unnamed "leading game developer" to create a new, cross-platform Tetris game that the company touts as "truly special."

It's a little worrying how that quote is already in past tense, as if they already did release something for the 40th anniversary^event. I was hoping it'd be announced with Block Party, and I suppose that tournament hasn't ended yet, but now that we're a week and a ½ in, it doesn't seem like the kind of event that'd have that announcement anyways. Surely if it was such a large game company there'd be some sort of leak by now? Any thoughts? Maybe this announcement was just for https://tetris.com/tetris-e60/...

My background is also animated 😎

Arena/Introductions are still missing, but the rest of the boards are now visible.

I just followed a URL to this post and it denies me the access to even read it. Open it again on incognito and it works fine. Is there no read-only permission? Why lock the new, undoubtedly excited generation to the offtopic forum ;-(

Also how do the smileys work? I see the toggle to specifically disable them in your post, but they don't seem to materialize anyways.

Finally I can post

in its natural habitat. ● ﹏☉