Author Dan Ackerman claims The Tetris Company limited his ability to market his book and liberally borrowed from it for much of the recent Tetris movie.
Ackerman’s book ‘The Tetris Effect: The Game That Mesmerized the World’, published in 2016, delves into the hit game’s origins in the former Soviet Union and the battle for global licencing rights
Dan Ackerman, Gizmodo editor-in-chief and writer of the book 'The Tetris Effect', alleges that Apple and the Tetris Company ripped off his book to make the movie Tetris.