The classic game Tetris is a puzzle game that has been popular around the world since the handheld era, and it is also the best-selling single-player game ever.
Since its birth, this game has not changed much in form, core and operation, and has always been considered a typical representative cultural product of the game circle.
However, on March 6, a message appeared on Weibo about tetris changing its name.
Some media claimed that "the International Federation of Game Industries called for the renaming of Tetris to Ukrainian Square", which attracted the attention of netizens.
According to foreign media reports, the International Federation of Game Industries is calling on casual game giants such as Nintendo, Zynga, and FB to join the boycott of Russia.
From now on, all Tetris games will be required to be renamed Ukrainian Square, otherwise they will be removed from the platform.
As soon as the news came out, it immediately triggered a wide range of heated discussions from all sides.
However, after expanding the fan query, the so-called "foreign media" source of the news was not found, and the "International Game Industry Federation" mentioned in the screenshot did not exist.
In fact, in contexts other than Chinese, Tetris doesn't contain the word "Russia" at all in the name of the game.
According to the data, the Game of Tetris is called Tetris in English and Тетрис, which is a combination of the Greek number 4 "tetra" and the word "tennis" in tennis.
The Chinese translated as Tetris because its inventor was Alexei Pakytenov, a mathematician from Russia.
Alexei loved tennis, and each combination of tetris was made up of 4 smaller blocks, so he merged tetra and tennis into one and changed it to Tetris.
When China introduced the game, it could not find the right word for Tetris in the Chinese, and if it was literally translated, the translation would be: "a four-panel game as fun as tennis.".
And it just so happened that the previous Slogan of this game was From Russia with Love, so the name of the simple image of Tetris was born.
However, some companies in the game industry have indeed imposed some restrictions on Russia, such as Epic, Activision Blizzard, CD Projekt, EA, etc. have decided to temporarily suspend the sale of games in Russia.
Statista statistics show that the Russian video game market is expected to generate revenue of $2.7 billion (about 17.118 billion yuan) in 2021, ranking eighth in the world.