News about Alexey Pajitnov

A fast-paced Cold War thriller starring sinister KGB agents, Muscovite boffins, influential U.S. capitalists, and a raging British media tycoon. It all seems to be a computer game plot. In fact, it's the most revealing tale of Tetris. Millions of us have played Tetris. In a new Apple TV film starring Taron Egerton (left) as Henk Rogers, a Dutch entrepreneur who buys the rights to the game from its creator Alexey Pajitnov (bottom right and top right).

Former Palo Alto police officers have suggested that the Tetris co-founder, who ostensibly killed his wife and 12-year-old son before strebbing himself to death in 1998, was killed by the Russian mafia. The Tetris Murders, a three-part documentary series, delves into Russian academic and computer scientist Vladimir Pokhilko's mysterious death. On September 22, 1998, the three children were discovered dead in their Palo Alto house. His wife and son were stabbed with two separate hammers before being stabbed, while Pokhilko had one severe stab wound in his neck.