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She Tried To Make Good Video Games For Girls, Whatever That Meant Electronic Arts is giving away 200 billion tokens to their Pogo players this month. That works out to about 12,600 tokens to each player to use toward virtual clothes and goodies for their avatars.
You now have two more ways to get your online Scrabble fix, as EA and Hasbro have announced the release of Scrabble on Pogo.com with a Facebook app to hit the social networking site later this month. Wait, you say, I’m already enjoying Scrabble via Facebook, Kotaku! No, that’s Scrabulous, an unofficial Scrabble clone that Hasbro attempted to have pulled. It’s still up.
Regardless you can play the Pogo.com version, should have you have the patience for it. As much as we’d like to impress the Scrabble bot AI with our vocabulary, we’re probably going to pass in favour of reading the press release for the third time. It’s full of words!
Electronic Arts today announced nine Hasbro games that will be hitting a variety of platforms over the next year.
Littlest Pet Shop and NERF “N-Strike” are both set to come to the Wii and DS this fall, with Littlest Pet Shop also making its way to the PC. Scrabble, Monopoly Here and Now and Yahtzee Adventures are all being developed for mobile phones. Electronic Arts is also developing Yahtzee, Monopoly Here and Now: World Edition, Trivial Pursuit and Operation for their online casual gaming service, Pogo.com.
“EA and Hasbro want to give families new ways to enjoy games; we want give them a new way to come together, connect, spend time and have fun around the TV or online,” said Chip Lange, Vice President and General Manager of EA’s Hasbro Studio. “Bringing the spirit of these games to life as video games has allowed us to create really unique and creative experiences for families and friends of all ages to enjoy together at home or online.”
“We are thrilled that together we are bringing our great toys and games to life in the digital world and providing consumers with new and dynamic ways to enjoy our amazing brands,” said Mark Blecher, Hasbro’s Senior Vice President of Digital Media and Gaming.
EA will be showing off a number of the games at the upcoming Toy Fair in New York later this month. Hit the jump for the full release with game descriptions.
Casual gaming site POGO wants you to stop smoking. And while we’re a little late on the bandwagon since yesterday was National Smoke-Free Day (which, as there are no smokers left standing today, worked out just great), POGO is still offering special “kick the habit” play rooms, game nights, mini items and even e-cards (back away from the e-cards, people). It’s a nice thought, and maybe video games are addictive enough to replace nicotine…but you’d probably have to light them on fire and breathe in the toxic fumes of burning box art paint for the full effect. [POGO via vh1]
