these guys need a girlfriend
11:03PM ON
08/01/2008
BY
Beth Comery
The demand for Scrabble articles has been tremendous — people can’t seem to get enough. I’m doing my best to keep up but I’m only one person and the phone won’t stop ringing. We have new developments in this fascinating battle. Writing for Business Week, Catherine Holahan reports that heartbroken, jonesing and angry Scrabulous nuts are hacking into Hasbro’s new online Scrabble game (launched recently to supplant Scrabulous) just to mess things up. They’re hurt, and they are lashing out. Meanwhile, back in India, the Agarwallas have not been sitting on their hands; they have already launched a new Scrabble-ish game on Facebook called Wordscraper where you make up your own rules and the tiles are round and the points are different and it’s a completely new thing this time… promise.
August 27th, 2008 at 9:14AM
breakin’ 2:electric vindaloo | Providence Daily Dose Says:
[...] take this long. The ProJo has a piece on the final act of the Scrabulous tragedy. As reported in this space ad nauseum when Hasbro first threatened legal action, the Agarwalla brothers [...]