Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com Joystiq http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif Joystiq http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2013 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/<![CDATA[Tetris hits 100 million paid mobile downloads]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/21/tetris-hits-100-million-paid-mobile-downloads/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/21/tetris-hits-100-million-paid-mobile-downloads/http://www.joystiq.com/2010/01/21/tetris-hits-100-million-paid-mobile-downloads/#comments That's right, Tetris, the grandfather of puzzle games, the one that absolutely everyone and their mother likes, the Slim Jim of video games, has been purchased on mobile phones a staggering 100 million times since 2005. As you may have guessed, that makes Tetris the best-selling mobile game of all time. The announcement comes by way of EA, which has had the mobile rights to the game since 2006. Granted, given how often people upgrade their phones, we're sure plenty have downloaded the game more than once. And why wouldn't they? It's Tetris.

Said Henk Rogers, CEO of Blue Planet Software, which manages Tetris licensing rights, "Tetris on mobile will never go away." Frankly, we hope he's right. If mobile Tetris did go away, we might actually have to converse with people while standing in line at the DMV.

[Tetris block font by David Martin]

JoystiqTetris hits 100 million paid mobile downloads originally appeared on Joystiq on Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>blue-planet-softwarebusinesseaElectronic-ArtsmobiletetriswowThu, 21 Jan 2010 02:00:00 EST<![CDATA[Tetris Company's Rogers clears lines, the air]]>http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/23/tetris-companys-rogers-clears-lines-the-air/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/23/tetris-companys-rogers-clears-lines-the-air/http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/23/tetris-companys-rogers-clears-lines-the-air/#commentsFiled under: ,


Henk Rogers is a rich man these days, after having secured the license for a certain Russian computer game back in the '80s. It was Rogers who licensed Tetris out to Nintendo for use in the Game Boy and NES, and it's Rogers who started The Tetris Company to manage future Tetris licensing.

That money is now going into the Blue Planet Foundation, a nonprofit Rogers has set up to research global warming. The foundation hosted a summit in Rogers' hometown of Honolulu in order to gather experts, in the interest of reducing fossil fuel dependency.

It's just one of Rogers' four "missions," which are about as ambitious as anything can be -- so much so that he doesn't expect them to be fulfilled within his lifetime: eliminating the need for fossil fuel, ending war, and, uh, understanding the universe. The other goal? "We need to make a back-up of life on Earth. We need to take each species on Earth and make a backup and populate other planets." Sounds vaguely crazy, but sensible at the same time!

JoystiqTetris Company's Rogers clears lines, the air originally appeared on Joystiq on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments]]>blue-planet-softwarehenk-rogerstetrisWed, 23 Apr 2008 13:30:00 EST