Scrabble fans might want to sit down before reading this news. During EA’s live summer preview event, EA Mobile demonstrated a live round of Scrabble played across four different platforms: iPad, iPhone, Android and Facebook. You’re probably floored right now. Catch your breath and read on.
Kicking off with next week’s release of the free Scrabble app for the Android platform, players across four different mobile platforms (or three mobile platforms and a social network) will be able to join together for a round of everyone’s favourite word game (aside from Words with Friends).
The whole shebang is powered by EA’s Origin service, the company’s answer to everyone else’s answer to Xbox Live.
Imagine all of us coming together, whether we’re rocking an iPod, on the toilet with our iPhone, earning money at a good job with our Android phone, or simply rocking back and forth crying in front of Facebook. A cross-platform Scrabble experience like this could change the world.
Though probably not.
PsyKoMunKy
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 9:50 AMLittle bit late – could always bring it to WP7 though, it doesn’t have Words with Friends already…
warcroft
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 10:20 AMWP7 has ‘Words by Post’ which is the same thing.
Richard
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 10:55 AMWords With Friends already does cross-platform Scrabble?
Chris
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 1:10 PMSomeones sarcasm detector is malfunctioning.
Jon
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 6:05 PMScrabble purists won’t play Words With Friends, the board is different to the official Scrabble board.
Chumly
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 11:07 AMHa! revolutionary!
EA pioneering the industry again.
oggob
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 2:14 PMEveryone is missing the point, it’s SCRABBLE!!!
Words With Friends is just a phony knock off, this shit is the real deal, the original board game classic! Sif not be excited about brand names!
:p
Wil
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 3:33 PMApple get away with releasing something that already exists as revolutionary why can’t EA do the same thing? :p
TheJagji
Friday, July 8, 2011 at 7:15 PMI don’t think iPad and iPhone can be counted as different things… They use the same OS, there for, they are the same.