EA’s Tetris is free, ad-supported on Android

In the Java days of the mobile games industry, Tetris was a licence to print money, as tens of millions of feature phone owners parted with 5 or $5 to get their fix of falling blocks.

The game’s dominant position has been usurped by Angry Birds in the apps era, but EA has a strategy to breathe new life into the franchise: make it free.

Yes, Tetris has been launched in afree and ad-supported versionfor Android – EA’s second title to get this treatment following Scrabble Free.

ME has all the details.