Tetris Online, Inc. was an American

video game developer A video game developer is a broad term for a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large ...

and publisher. The company was the exclusive online licensee of

Tetris ''Tetris'' (russian: link=no, Тетрис) is a puzzle video game created by Soviet software engineer Alexey Pajitnov in 1984. It has been published by several companies for multiple platforms, most prominently during a dispute over the approp ...

in North America and Europe. It was founded in January 2006 by Nintendo of America founder and former president

Minoru Arakawa is a Japanese businessman best known as the founder and former president of Nintendo of America, and the co-founder of Tetris Online, Inc. Biography Minoru Arakawa was born on 3 September 1946 in Kyoto, Japan, the second son of Waichiro Arakawa ...

, video game designer and publisher

Henk Rogers Henk Rogers (born 24 December 1953) is a Dutch video game designer and entrepreneur. He is known for producing Japan's first major turn-based role-playing video game ''The Black Onyx'', securing the rights to distribute ''Tetris'' on video game c ...

and Tetris creator

Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov. (born 16 April 1955) is a Russian-born American computer engineer and video game designer. He is best-known for designing and developing ''Tetris'' in 1984 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre under the A ...

. Tetris Online, Inc. is the developer of social games ''Tetris Battle'' and ''

Tetris Friends ''Tetris Friends'' was an online Tetris game developed by Tetris Online, Inc. Registered users were able to compare their scores with their friends and with the entire community. It was the only official Flash implementation of Tetris made by the ...

''. In March 2013, Tetris Online, Inc. laid off 40% of its staff. The company ceased all operations on May 31, 2019. Along with this shutdown, ''Tetris Friends'' also ceased all operations.

Games

Tetris Online, Inc. developed and published the following games for consoles, handheld devices, online and download from its inception in 2006 to its shutdown in 2019.

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Tetris Online, Inc.
{{Tetris Tetris Defunct video game companies of the United States Video game companies established in 2006 Video game companies disestablished in 2019 2006 establishments in Hawaii 2019 disestablishments in Hawaii Defunct companies based in Hawaii