So, not sure anymore, if this is good news. However, there's also the possibility that the company doesn't care about the long-term success and just makes a money-grab title. This company has for sure more know-how and resources than The Tetris Company itself. This probably means that The Tetris Company gave those online rights to an external company that is now making a new online game. There were mass layoffs in 2013, and Tetris Online rather tried to maintain its games (especially Tetris Battle) instead of creating new big clients. Tetris Online was the subdiary of The Tetris Company that made small browser games, games that were only distributed digitally and games for unusual platforms (e.g. PS: I assume that Blink will run a last Tetris Friends tournament pretty soon. There's even the speculation that this client is eSports-ready (pretty much lagless, a competitive rule for 1vs1 and a good spectator mode), see this Japanese interview with Maya and Henk Rogers from late 2018 (scroll to bottom and use google translate). Tetris' (fake) 35th anniversary is in June 2019 - there will be a new browser client for sure. Flash player will be discontinued at the end of 2020 and The Tetris Company decided to not wait so long to replace its flash games with a HTML5 one. This may sound like bad news but it's the opposite. This deserves an own thread but I will post it here nonetheless: Tetris Friends and Tetris Battle will be shut down on May 31st, 2019.
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