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. More »
Do not mess with the rules of Scrabble. That was the lesson of yesterday, the day many people thought the rules would soon be changing. Blasphemy by the Scrabble-makers? Snobbery by the fans? The heated reactions seemed familiar. More »
Not only did my face manage to make it’s way onto the The Colbert Report last night, as I slept, but it did so as the voice of the Twittersphere. More »
Word from Scrabble makers Mattel is that proper nouns will be fair game for Scrabble players in a few months’ time. UPDATE: Not so fast concerning this “rule change”. More »
EA rolled out Hasbro Family Game Night for Xbox Live Arcade last week as part of Microsoft’s Days of Arcade promotion. Battleship, Yahtzee and Connect 4 were included, but the one I wanted to play was Scrabble. Thing is, we’re not allowed to play Scrabble on our Xbox 360s in Australia.
EA Mobile plans to announce a slew of new games for the iPhone at their summit this morning; among them Tiger Woods, Need for Speed, Wolfenstein RPG and Star Trek.
EA continues its onslaught of Hasbro titles this spring autumn as the company reveals plans to flood Xbox Live Arcade with classic board games via the Hasbro Family Game Night channel.
RJ Softwares, the creators of the popular Facebook game Scrabulous, can now rest easy as Hasbro drops the copyright infringement lawsuit they filed in order to protect their precious Scrabble.
Hasbro is suing the creators of the popular Scrabulous Facebook game, after a request the toy company made to the social network earlier this year to pull the game went unanswered.
In January when Hasbro first began to fuss about Scrabulous, many were perplexed — wasn’t the prolific Facebook board game an homage to the original, arguably even a sort of viral marketing? But today’s infringement suit announcement comes just after Electronic Arts, through its partnership with Hasbro, launched its own official Scrabble game on Facebook, a launch no doubt complicated by the existence of an unlicenced, competing game.
Hasbro says Scrabulous infringes on its intellectual property rights, and is suing creators Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla, while requesting that Facebook pull the application immediately.
Full announcement follows the jump.
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!
