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This Is What Happens When You Cross Scrabble With Tron’s Light Cycles
The rise of Words with Friends has brought the slow and plodding casual word game genre into the spotlight. With Lexatron, Fictorial‘s Brian Hammond seeks to add a little excitement to the scene with a keen competitive twist.
Second Thoughts About Gaming’s Most-Hated Company
The bubble bursts. The blood is in the water. The knives sharpen. Pick your favourite cliché to commemorate the beating that Zynga took last week after posted some numbers that Wall Street hated and lowering their forecasts for the rest of the year. Their stock plummeted 40 per cent and some people are rooting for the creators of FarmVille and CityVille and owners of Words With Friends to never recover.
Rant: Questionable Words With Friends
I sometimes play Words With Friends, and I play it the way I play Scrabble: using words that a) I know and that b) I’m sure are words normal people would use. I don’t use wacky words (which isn’t to say any word I don’t know is “wacky” — in some cases I’m the ignorant problem).
Survey: 1 In 10 Chance Words With Friends Will Get You Some Action
We all know that the “social” space has changed the dating scene. Facebook has thrown all sorts of new tools and little wrinkles our way.
Words With Friends Saved A Man From Death
The ever-addictive word game cherished by word fiends and Alec Baldwins everywhere has a new star on its sleeve: it prevented a heart attack, sort of!
Words With Friends Ends With Marriage Between Friends
Megan Lawless and Jasper Jasperse didn’t meet at a party, or through friends, or via a dating service. They met as random opponents over social game Words With Friends.
The Video Game That Made Alec Baldwin Quit Twitter
Ultimately it was an iPhone game, not political grousing, hackers or public tweets of affection that led actor and Twitteratti Alec Baldwin to quit the social networking service.
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