The Tetris Company lashes out at the White House and Donald Trump’s administration buckles to its demands

The United States government launched a new section earlier this week on the official White House website called, simply, arcade. It featured a series of video game clones, that offered political commentary in poor taste and echoed President Donald Trump’s ideology. Among these games was a Tetris clone, Build the Wall: Zombie Border Siege, which has sparked a strong backlash.

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The Tetris Company Isn’t Happy

The Tetris Company has stated that they have not authorized any parody of their game, let alone one making a political statement. On their X account, the social network formerly known as Twitter, they posted a statement saying that “at Tetris we believe in the power of connection and in bringing people together, not dividing them. To all our fans everywhere: we love you, we see you, and we are grateful to have you in our community“. In doing so, they distanced themselves from the US government’s hateful messaging.

The game, Build the Wall: Zombie Border Siege, used classic Tetris gameplay. It consisted of stacking blocks, but with a different goal. Here, the goal was to build a wall to keep “aliens” from crossing the “southern border” and invading the country, in a not-so-subtle nod to President Trump’s policies.

All of this led the US government to remove the game from the White House page without issuing any statement or offering any explanation. Although it is no longer available, they have not said why they made this decision, so we do not know the exact reason they removed the game. But it seems that, after all, The Tetris Company got what they wanted: their game wouldn’t be used to spread hate.