Kotaku: Scrabble

There Are No Words to Describe Cross-Platform Mobile Scrabble

Mike Fahey — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 16:52:22 EDT

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Scrabble fans might want to sit down before reading this news. During EA's live summer preview event, EA Mobile demonstrated a live round of Scrabble played across four different platforms: iPad, iPhone, Android, and Facebook. You're probably floored right now. Catch your breath and read on. More »

The Great Scrabble Panic of 2010

Stephen Totilo — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:40:00 EDT

Do not mess with the rules of Scrabble. That was the lesson of yesterday, the day many people thought the rules would soon be changing. Blasphemy by the Scrabble-makers? Snobbery by the fans? The heated reactions seemed familiar. More »

Crecente's 1/10 Of A Second Colbert Report Appearance

Brian Crecente — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:00:00 EDT

Not only did my face manage to make it's way onto the The Colbert Report last night, as I slept, but it did so as the voice of the Twittersphere. More »

Scrabble Rules Change Permits Proper Nouns, Horrifies Purists [Update 3: Old Rules Preserved]

Stephen Totilo — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:00:00 EDT

Word from the Scrabble makers at Mattel is that proper nouns will be fair game for Scrabble players as of this summer. [UPDATE: Not so fast concerning this "rule change."] More »

EA's Big New Mobile Game Is... Scrabble? Again?

AJ Glasser — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:00:00 EDT

EA Mobile plans to announce a slew of new games for the iPhone at their summit this morning; among them Tiger Woods, Need for Speed, Wolfenstein RPG and Star Trek. More »

EA Bring Family Game Night To Xbox Live

Mike Fahey — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:20:00 EST

EA continues its onslaught of Hasbro titles this spring as the company reveals plans to flood Xbox Live Arcade with classic board games via the Hasbro Family Game Night channel. More »

Hasbro Drops Scrabulous Lawsuit

Mike Fahey — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:20:00 EST

RJ Softwares, the creators of the popular Facebook game Scrabulous, can now rest easy as Hasbro drops the copyright infringement lawsuit they filed in order to protect their precious Scrabble. More »

Hasbro Sues Over Scrabulous Facebook Game

Leigh Alexander — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:00:00 EDT

Hasbro is suing the creators of the popular Scrabulous Facebook game, after a request the toy company made to the social network earlier this year to pull the game went unanswered. More »

EA Brings Scrabble To Facebook, Pogo

Michael McWhertor — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:00:05 EDT

You now have two more ways to get your online Scrabble fix, as EA and Hasbro have announced the release of Scrabble on Pogo.com with a Facebook app to hit the social networking site later this month. Wait, you say, I'm already enjoying Scrabble via Facebook, Kotaku! No, that's Scrabulous, an unofficial Scrabble clone that Hasbro attempted to have pulled. It's still up. More »

EA Announces First Hasbro Games

Brian Crecente — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:00:32 EST

Electronic Arts today announced nine Hasbro games that will be hitting a variety of platforms over the next year. More »

Lesbo In Scrabble DS? You Ain't Seen Nothing...

Mark Wilson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:40:38 EDT

Our own Luke Plunkett recently pointed out that the word "lesbo" is in the list of Scrabble DS suggested words, and elaborated that if he'd known that the Scrabble dictionary were so naughty, he'd have "played a lot more Scrabble." More »

EA And Hasbro Go Casual

Mike Fahey — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:40:42 EDT

A couple weeks back Hasbro worked a deal to buy back their casual game licenses from Atari, leaving me wondering what big plans they had in store for their classic board game titles like Scrabble, Monopoly, and Yahtzee. Well now we know. Hasbro has now entered into a licensing agreement with EA, granting them the exclusive rights to develop titles based on several of the company's intellectual properties for consoles, mobile, handheld and PC platforms. Not limited to board games, the agreement also includes popular children's properties like Nerf, Tonka, and the Littlest Pet Shop.

"Our toy and game brands have been family-favorites for decades, and aligning ourselves with EA will result in broadening the reach of our brands through the 're-imagining' of these beloved entertainment icons in all key digital categories," said Brian Goldner, Hasbro's Chief Operating Officer.

There's a scary word. Re-imagining. "What if the Monopoly pieces had guns?" No re-imagining please! More »