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The Tetris Company weren’t done when they went after and subsequently had Tris removed, as they went after Shaker (Free). Shaker was originally being sold in the App Store for $9.99 but is now free for the next 4 to 5 hours as it’ll be removed from the App Store soon, according to The iPhone Blog.
Many game developers that had legal threats sent to them usually had something in their name that caused the harassment to occur, but Shaker has nothing in its name to draw attention. Clearly The Tetris Company is trying to protect an idea for a game, rather than just the name.
Before the game starts choose how you want to control the game: Classic – by tapping buttons that appear on the screen below the play field, Stirred – by using simple finger gestures, and Shaken – by shaking your iPhone. As blocks fall down the playing field you can manipulate them, by moving sideways and/or rotating, with the goal of completing a row of objects without gaps. When such row is completed, it disappears, and any objects above the deleted row will fall. As the game progresses, the blocks fall faster, and the game ends when the stack reaches the top of the playing field, so no new blocks are able to enter. At the end of the game, if your score reaches the top-10 list one of 101 martini recipes stored in the program is randomly unlocked.
I really like tetris, I waiste all of my time at work playing it.