Tetris has debuted on Facebook Messenger.
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Tetris launches as an instant game on Facebook Messenger

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Gamers play Tetris billions of times online every year, and over 500 million Tetris mobile games have been downloaded to date. But now you don’t even have to download it at all now that Tetris is an instant game on Facebook Messenger.

The iconic block-matching game goes live today on the instant games platform, where it can be played without downloading. It’s another new platform for one of the most recognized games in history, and it shows that messaging games are poised to become a hot new way to find games. Facebook’s Messenger has a reach to 1.3 billion users.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.