Nintendo will release a Tetris Battle Royale game today

14 Feb 2019

Steve Wright

Update: The game’s now available — check the eShop.

Original story: A Tetris Battle Royale game, Tetris 99, was just announced on Nintendo Switch.

Available later today and exclusive to Nintendo Switch Online subscribers, the free-to-play game will pit 99 players against one another. The goal? To beat 98 other players, of course.

“Players can look forward to battling it out in upcoming online events,” Nintendo added in a press release.

You can check out Tetris 99 below. We’ll let you know when you can download it.

Tetris 99 is available on Nintendo Switch from 14 February.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.