Tetris Block Party is a new take on the classic puzzler that's integrating more multiplayer and social-focused features.

The names of Tetris blocks were an important tool in the early ... as the letter of the alphabet that they resemble: I, O, L, J, S, Z, and T.” Which, honestly, makes perfect sense.

allowing a player to use preprogrammed keyboard instructions to move and shift the tetronimoes—the official term for four-block shapes such as those in Tetris blocks. “It was a bit tricky to ...