Too Much Awesome

Few games take advantage of an overactive vocabulary the way Scrabble does. In fact, Scrabble is all about knowing difficult words in the hopes of showing up your family with a massive triple word score for something with a Z in it. Apparently, Scrabble is also the proud owner of a sordid past, but let’s [...]

Following up on last month’s demand by Hasbro to remove the game Scrabulous on Facebook in the US and Canada because of its similarity to Scrabble, BBC news reported this week that the UK has followed suit.  No more free Scrabulous in the UK.

Scrabulous may be on its last legs, as Hasbro is going ahead with its attempt to collect “damages” from the Facebook application that is based on the classic board game Scrabble. As Techdirt suggests, Hasbro seems to be suing Facebook for making its game popular again. A pretty bizarre move by the company that owns [...]