Scrabblegate
July 30th, 2008 by Justin Richards in Gaming, NewsIf there’s anything that pouting girlfriends, hollering family members and freaked-out strangers have taught me, it’s that Scrabble is a divisive force. Let’s just look at what happened in the little Internet city that Amanda Schurr likes to call the Book of Face.
First, Hasbro sued Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla, the makers of a Facebook application called Scrabulous, and the game was disabled. Then Hasbro put up its own Facebook application, since it had licensed online Scrabble to Electronic Arts.
However, Facebook Scrabble is unplayable. It was victim to a malicious attack! We don’t know for sure whether the attackers were Scrabulous fans, but I think it’s pretty obvious. Anyone who’s ever been challenged and lost, but only because the dictionary was stupid, knows that that game makes you mean.
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