Tetris Online, Inc. () was an American

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and publisher. The company was the exclusive online licensee of ''

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'' in North America and Europe. It was founded in January 2006 by

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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 Araka ...

, video game designer and publisher

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and Tetris creator

Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born April 16, 1955) is a Russian-American computer engineer and video game designer. He is best known for creating, designing, and developing ''Tetris'' in 1985 while working at the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre un ...

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