Tetris-inspired Tris to be pulled from Apple App Store

Apple’s App Store has plenty of fun games that can be downloaded and played on iPods and the iPhone alike. Unfortunately, there is one free game that ruffled the feathers of The Tetris Company enough to threaten legal action. The Tetris-style puzzle game known as Tris will be taken off the App Store this Wednesday (August 27, 2008).

The creator of the game, Noah Witherspoon, wrote on his blog that he was contacted by Apple informing him of The Tetris Company’s complaint. According to Witherspoon, the game’s name is way too similar to Tetris for the company to allow…