This summer, board game makers Hasbro and Mattel forced the popular Facebook gaming application Scrabulous to shut down, claiming that it violated the companies’ copyrights on the crossword board game ...

Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. In ...

SEATTLE — A sanctioned version of Scrabble for Facebook, released this week by video game maker Electronic Arts Inc., boasts animated graphics and true-to-the-board-game design. But underneath its ...

Scrabulous application spat could set legal precedent... Facebook's Scrabulous application has sparked a row between the social networking site and the owners of the Scrabble brand. It's a case with ...

According to this AP story, EA will be releasing a "proper" version of Scrabble on Facebook, after making moves to close down the popular Scrabulous earlier this year. EA spokeswoman Trudy Muller said ...

NEW YORK — T-R-O-U-B-L-E could loom for a Scrabble knockoff that has become one of the most popular activities on Facebook. Hasbro Inc., the company that owns the word game's North American rights, ...

Until recently, the closest Facebook users could get to playing Scrabble online was Scrabulous, the wildly popular application launched by two Indian brothers back in 2006. That game — essentially a ...