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The online sub-genre was hot a long time ago when HQ seemed poised to take over the world. Then HQ crashed and pretty much took the sub-genre with it. But online game shows still survive, and Stephen Detweiler's Tetris epic is one of them.
The article relates how the show uses Amazon's cloud technology to get thousands of players on the same page. It rather optimistically imagines "potentially hundreds of thousands of players" for the show, though a recent episode drew about 10,000 at its peak. But hope springs eternal, and maybe Tetris Prime Time will suddenly catch on big. Or maybe not.
Regardless of how online game shows fare, the technology behind them is elaborate and interesting. It's all in the cloud, you might say, just like this blog. Somewhere in the world computers are storing gazillions of blog entries including my little contributions. And we'll never know exactly where.
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