Enhance Games has announced that Tetris Effect: Connected will release on August 18, with a free update for those who already own the game. It will be available on PS4, Steam, Epic Games and Oculus. The Steam version will have a 25% discount for the first two weeks after launch. In addition, it will also have extra digital downloadable content …

Tetris is arguably the greatest game ever made. But despite its success, its creators didn't make much money thanks to a complicated legal dispute that took many years to resolve.

As we buy more and more games digitally, the question of digital ownership often comes along. The weird thing with software is that you’ve pretty much always bought a licence to use that software, not the software itself. Whether you’ve got a game on a disc or stored on your hard drive, you don’t own that data; you just own a licence to use that data. One of the benefits of physical media is that even if that licence is revoked for whatever reason, you can disconnect your machine or console from the internet, put the disc in and probably still play some version of said game.

Good news for anyone who likes to spin vinyl, because the Tetris Effect game developed by Enhance Games, Monstars and Resonair is finally ready to bring some of its EDM masterpieces to the best audio format.

When you play a game, you want several things: You want escapism, you want excitement and you want to have a good time. Some games do just that with tried and trusted mechanics, while others take those ideas and try to add some exotic flavour to the mix. Some fail, some succeed and some games create lasting memories that create new benchmarks in the entire industry. Here are ten such games, which are unbelievably satisfying thanks to one key gameplay factor.

Tetsuya Mizuguchi’s musical masterpiece Tetris Effect hits the Epic Games Store as one of its latest exclusive acquisitions on July 23.

I adore Tetris. It’s such a simple game, but it’s something that’s executed perfectly. Or at least, it’s something that can be executed perfectly. Enhance Games’ Tetris Effect is an example of that, while Ubisoft’s Ultimate Tetris was drab and dull. This new one? It's a Battle Royale.

Tetris Effect treats the classic puzzle game with the utmost respect, giving it a modern spalsh of visual flair and intoxicatingly good music to make it the best way to play Tetris yet.