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Articles about scrabble: December 1, 2008

Scrabulous users - spell G-O-O-D-B-Y-E

by Jenni Lada on Jul 25, 2008 at 01:29 PM

Facebook Scrabulous screenshot
Hasbro has just filed a lawsuit against the makers of the popular Facebook application Scrabulous. Scrabulous was created by Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla under the name RJ Softwares and has 506,580 daily active users according to its Facebook page.

Hasbro is alledging that Scrabulous is ripping off its board game (and now Facebook game) Scrabble. Hasbro is demanding that the application be removed from Facebook in US and Canada, since EA and Hasbro have released a Scrabble Facebook app in those countries.

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Bananagrams to be Majesco’s Facebook debut

by Jenni Lada on Jul 24, 2008 at 11:18 AM

Majesco Bananagrams FacebookMajesco’s first Facebook game has been revealed - it will be working with Large Animal Games to bring Bananagrams to users of the social networking site. The game will be a free Facebook application on August 18, 2008, with additional features and upgrades added later. The official Bananagrams press release does not state if the game will only be open to US and Canadian users, like EA’s Scrabble.

Bananagrams, like EA’s Scrabble, is based on a previously existing board game and also involves using tiles to create words. However, Bananagrams is more of a free-for-all. A pile of tiles is created and each person is given tiles, and immediately every player goes to work creating words at the same time. The person who uses all of his tiles after the pile of tiles is gone is the winner.

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Play real Scrabble from EA and Hasbro on Facebook

by Jenni Lada on Jul 15, 2008 at 11:54 AM

Gamertell EA Hasbro Scrabble on Facebook screen
The Facebook Scrabble open beta from the EA/Hasbro partnership officially launched yesterday (July 14, 2008). Frustrated by the fan-ripoffs, the official version was created and released, and now more Hasbro games are planned. Scrabble is the first social networking site version of an EA/Hasbro game, but not the last, as the companies have more games planned.

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EA brings Hasbro’s Scrabble to Pogo, later to Facebook

by Neil Barbour on Jul 8, 2008 at 01:09 PM

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EA is ready to wipe your Scrabble clone-playin’ guilt away with a legit, free version of the tabletop classic for Facebook. The videogame megapublisher has the official Hasbro board game available on Pogo right now and it will be available on social networking site Facebook later this month.

What really jumps out of the Pogo version is the more authentic replication of the traditional board and tiles although it’s a little…

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EA and Hasbro strike a deal

by Pulkit Chandna on Aug 13, 2007 at 01:07 PM

A popular Hasbro game-MonopolyEA Casual, a newly launched arm of Electronic Arts, will be soon developing games based on popular Hasbro franchises. Hasbro and EA Casual have finalized a licensing deal. The games developer will churn out games for all conceivable platforms including consoles, web and mobile devices. This augurs well for EA Casual, as the label was born only in June 2007.

The quid-pro-quo end of the bargain means that even Hasbro would be allowed to make toys and traditional games based on popular EA games franchises.  EA plans to release the first Hasbro-based games in 2008 though no word was given on when Hasbro will begin releasing EA-inspired toys.

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