Tag: SCRABULOUS

RealNetworks, one of the many fingers dipping into the pie that is Scrabble, has released an online version of Scrabble for the social networking site Facebook. This new twist is just one of many in the saga that is Facebook-Scrabble-Scrabulous. Scrabulous, the insanely popular, yet completely unauthorized online version of Scrabble, was a huge hit on Facebook, with over 600,000 users. ...

Both Hasbro and Mattel are asking Facebook to remove the Scrabulous application, a third party add-on, saying that it's too similar to Scrabble, and therefore infringing their copyright. Apparently, Hasbro has the rights to the game in the U.S. and Canada, while Mattel has the rights everywhere else. As such, Scrabulous is in a troubled spot - the AP reports that Hasbro has threatened to "close ...