Tag: SCRABBLE

Here are a few of the other noteworthy things we saw today on our never-ending journey through the wild, wild Web. 'Scrabble,' the first paid app for Kindle, is out, and has graphics on par with a SkyMall 5000-in-one gaming machine. [From: DVICE] Behold 10 years in Apple product design, from the Bondi Blue iMac to the iPhone 4, visualized. [From: TUAW] Tim Carmody's guide to the Kindle 3 ...

The long torrid tale of Scrabble knockoff Scrabulous may finally be coming to an end. Hasbro, the owner of Scrabble in the Americas, sued the Agarwalla brothers, the developers of the popular Facebook game, and Facebook followed by taking the application down. Now, after a name change and some modifications to the play mechanics and aesthetics, the brothers are back with Lexulous. Hasbro is ...

Tonya Carrington claims that the Nintendo version of Scrabble has taught her eight-year-old son Ethan dirty words, UPI reports. After reading the label on the game's box, which qualified it as suitable for young children, Ms. Carrington brought the game home in hopes of expanding her son's vocabulary. Undoubtedly, the game did expand Ethan's vocabulary, but not in the way his mother had ...

Scrabulous, Facebook's Scrabble knock-off, is back after receiving, shall we say, a face-lift. Actually, it's more of a name change, but we couldn't resist. The popular Facebook application was taken down after gaming manufacturer Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble, made the astute observation that Scrabulous was a near exact copy of the original board game. In response, no one ...

'Scrabulous' was easily one of the most popular Facebook apps on the planet, letting friends play quick word games against each other a turn at a time. Hasbro, owners of the 'Scrabble' brand, naturally didn't like that and, as soon as they got their own Facebook version of the game rolling, promptly sued the makers of 'Scrabulous' and had Facebook remove the game. A day later, hackers have shut ...

Remember that Facebook-based Scrabble knock-off we told you about, Scrabulous? Well we knew it ruffled Hasbro's feathers, but making the lil' Scrabble-wanna-be obsolete and crushing it like a bug looks like it won't be enough for the board game super power. Hot on the heels of the official EA-developed Scrabble Facebook application's release, Hasbro has announced it will be sueing the makers of ...

Nothing sucks the fun out of a game of wits like cheating. And when playing games online, cheating is so easy it's hard not to do, as one Wired writer found out when she added the Scrabulous application to her Facebook page. Scrabulous allows members to play a Scrabble-like game (Scrabble is a copyright of Parker Brothers) with their Facebook friends. Sarah Fallon (the writer in question) ...