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Farewell, Scrabulous

A while back, we reported on the conflict between the two Indian brothers, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, who created Scrabulous, probably people's favorite application on Facebook, and the company that owned the North American copyrights for the board game Scrabble. Following a legal complaint from Hasbro, Faceboo...

26 August 2008
03:06 GMT

Scrabulous Is Back with a Different Identity

As we previously reported, Scrabulous, Facebook's most popular game, was removed from the website, because of a lawsuit filed by the legal owners of the board game Scrabble. Hundreds of people expressed their anger at the company, almost wishing they were not U.S. or Canada citizens, because they were the only o...

31 July 2008
09:39 GMT

Removal of Scrabulous Creates Panic

Scrabulous, one of the most popular games that could be found on Facebook, has been shut down. Those who now want to connect to the application receive the message "Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice," although users from outside of America also complain that their access to the g...

29 July 2008
11:58 GMT

Electronic Arts and Hasbro Aim to Push Scrabulous out of Facebook

When Electronic Arts closed a deal with Hasbro regarding the use of its Monopoly brand (EA is clearly interested in such titles) and of other intellectual property, there were many people thinking that Scrabble would be one of the first games to be re-done in an electronic form by the videogame publisher.Now Electron...

8 July 2008
02:46 GMT

Facebook Makes People Rich

Facebook is a phenomenon these days and anybody must admit it since the entire web talks about this social network. And because it's so powerful and popular, Facebook is able to turn a simple man into a huge star over night. This is exactly what happened in Calcutta, India after two brothers created a Facebook g...

22 April 2008
17:51 GMT

Hasbro Sees Twists in Scrabulous Plot

One of the most common applications on Facebook, ranked number 9, Scrabulous, is approaching rapidly its deadline decision to be made. And it's really not like the brothers owning it have more than one option: to sell. The only thing that they may try to do is not to sell to whom Hasbro wants them to, namely Ele...

23 January 2008
03:07 GMT

Scrabulous to Be Shut Down by Hasbro

The many many applications, that Facebook includes for its users to share and enjoy, enlist logically in their ranks many games, such as Scrabulous, the online version of Hasbro's Scrabble. That seems to be reason enough for the toy company to hound its lawyers against the maker of the app. The online version is...

14 January 2008
10:17 GMT




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