Alexey Pajitnov 24 June 2009, he received the honorary award at the LARA - Der Deutsche Games Award in Cologne, Germany. In 2012, IGN included Pajitnov on their list of 5 Memorable Video Game Industry One-Hit Wonders, calling him "the ultimate video game one-hit wonder." Alexey Pajitnov Alexey Leonidovich Pajitnov (born 14 March 1956) is a Russian video game designer and computer engineer who developed "Tetris" while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a Soviet government-founded R&D center. He only started to get royalties from his creation in 1996 when he and Henk Rogers formed The
The Games Machine (Italy) was acquired by the Italian publishing company "Sprea Media Italy". After a few years of co-existence with its historical rival magazine "Giochi per il Mio Computer", today "TGM" is the only Italian PC gaming magazine. In August 2013, "The Games Machine" celebrated its 300th issue and its 25th anniversary, becoming the second longest-running videogame magazine in the world behind the Japanese "Famitsu", and the longest-running PC gaming magazine ever. The event also saw the relaunch of the magazine's website. The Games Machine (Italy) The Games Machine, also known by the acronym TGM, is an Italian video game magazine that features