STP: At GDC last week, we had a chance to go hands-on with the first free Tetris game for iOS, Tetris Blitz. Similar to other Blitz games like Bejeweled Blitz and Solitaire Blitz, Tetris Blitz will let you play for a limited amount of time in order to reach a high score that you can brag about on Facebook.
Carl Williams writes, "Okay who doesn’t know about Tetris by now? For the few that do not know, Tetris is a falling block game from the 80’s. Various companies from Nintendo to, now, EA have kept the brand alive and well on many different platforms. Android and iPhone are just a couple of the newer platforms. Recently, Electronic Arts updated Tetris Blitz and renamed it, at least in the store pages, adding “2016 Edition” to the title."
In the third and final piece of this feature, we go into Jeff Peters transition from an eSports pioneer into this long tenure in game development
Gaming Everywhere: "EA Mobile — the division of Electronic Arts that oversees mobile game development — announced today a major milestone: their two billionth game download."
