Saturday, January 25, 2014

Tetris is back - for the PS4 and Xbox One

Publisher Ubisoft is bringing the 30-year-old game to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. But can the original Tetrisbe improvedDuring the summer of 1992, between my first and second years at university, I was working at a video game studio in Leamington Spa. We were supposed to be coding a game called Tank Commander for the PC, a long forgotten battle simulation – but one day someone brought in a Game Link cable, which allowed the connection of two Nintendo Game Boy consoles together. Of course, we immediately loaded up the Tetris competitive mode, in which any lines you cleared on your own screen would be cruelly transferred on to the bottom of your opponent's stack. Work ground to a halt and didn't really start up again for several days