Rez Creators Announce Tetris Effect For PS4 & PSVR On Tetris Anniversary
By TJ Denzer ·
It's World Tetris Day, celebrating the 34th year of the famous line-clearing puzzle game's existence. In celebration, we're getting a new and stylish version of Tetris for PS4 known as Tetris Effect, featuring PSVR support.
34 years is a long time. Being generous, it's a third of a long human life. Tetris has been around long enough for children to grow into adults and their children to discover the game as it slipped in and out of the collective consciousness in a myriad of versions on various systems through the decades. Now, on World Tetris Day and the 34th anniversary of the famous line-clearing puzzle game brand, even new generations will have a new way to discover this addictive game format with Tetris Effect, and it features full PSVR support to create an entirely new way to engage with the Tetris format.
Announced today in a press release on June 6 via its publisher, Enhance Games, Tetris Effect is the latest game in the long line of the Tetris franchise, from the mind of Rez Infinite Producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi. The title refers to a cognitive state in which people do an activity so much that it pervades their concious and subconscious in other parts of life, dreams, and thought processes, dubbed the Tetris Effect. The announcement comes alongside a trailer which better and more thoroughly explains the Tetris effect as it builds the colorful and luminescent visuals of the game.
As suggested, Tetris Effect will feature PSVR support, the virtual reality headset for PlayStation 4. Mizuguchi is no stranger to crafting artistic gaming experiences for the PSVR. Rez Infinite was a rather beautiful musical rail shooter first made for PlayStation 2 and then adapted to PSVR for PS4. Mizuguchi and Enhance Games appear to be bringing their taste for colorful geometric games to Tetris Effect in full, unbridled form. The game has no confirmation on any other system yet, but will be coming for PS4 in Fall of 2018.
Of course, maybe that means we'll see another new and interesting track for Tetris on the TG Leaderboards as well. We've certainly seen our share of Tetris records. Even recently, with TG user Alex Holbrook maxed out the score on the Game Boy version of the game. A Tetris with virtual reality applications sounds like a fresh and awesome way to approach awesome new records. We'll look forward to seeing the game come out soon.