Due to financial constraints, the social app that saw a regular influx of about 35,000 people every month will close the doors on the karaoke, concerts and blooming friendships that brought satisfaction to so many VR users.
No, it's not a movie about falling blocks. The first social VR app to launch all the way back in 2013 will be shutting down on August 3rd. There is a new movie about TetrisĀ in the works, according to a tweet fromĀ reporter Baz Bamigboye. Adam Sandler included Tetris as an element of Pixels, his comedy about video games, but surely that's about as close as you can get to putting those bricks on the screen. There's not really a lot of story to tell in Tetris - it's just a bunch of falling bricks that players have to place in a strategic order so that the blocks will disappear. That being said, if you claimed you were making a Tetris movie, most people would laugh.
When you take into account all the bootleg copies of knock-off versions, it's impossible to guess how many people have actually played Tetris, but the number is astronomical. So massive is its legacy that it's difficult to pin down exact sales numbers across various iterations and platforms, but 500 million copies is a fair estimate. Scrabulous which was in those days a huge draw to Facebook was shut down for users in North America. Tetris is one of the best-selling video games of all time. Tetris was no World of Warcraft, Call of Duty or Halo. Puzzle together in this modern yet familiar online stacker.