http://www.theindustrystandard.com/news/2008/03/02/scrabulous-facebook-game-nyt-spotlight Comments for "The Scrabulous Facebook game in the NYT spotlight" en http://www.theindustrystandard.com/news/2008/03/02/scrabulous-facebook-game-nyt-spotlight <p><!--paging_filter--> <p><a href="http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/scrab.jpg" title="scrab.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/scrab.thumbnail.jpg" title="scrab.jpg" alt="scrab.jpg" align="left" /></a>Ever since Scrabulous was created by a couple of brothers in India, it has been a hot property on Facebook with more than 700,000 players a day. But Hasbro hasn&#8217;t taken kindly to the rip-off of its Scrabble property and has sued to remove the game from the fast-growing social network. Electronic Arts and Real Networks are moving to deploy their own online Scrabble games under license from Hasbro. But fans of Scrabulous are angry that their game might get pulled. The New York Times has an interesting <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02game.html?_r=1&amp;ref=technology&amp;oref=slogin" rel="nofollow">story today</a> on the brothers and the legal controversy.</p> <p><a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Venturebeat?a=euseki" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Venturebeat?i=euseki" border="0"></img></a></p> http://www.theindustrystandard.com/news/2008/03/02/scrabulous-facebook-game-nyt-spotlight#comments Business &amp; Finance Business and Technology video games Breaking News Sun, 02 Mar 2008 11:23:34 -0800 Venture Beat 102326 at http://www.theindustrystandard.com