Oh the days of Scrabulous. Playing the super-duper fun game of Scrabble online. See what fun words my friends would come up with. Oh yes.
After IMing my brother about how I miss Scrabulous, I did a google search for it, just outta kicks. The first result was the wikipedia entry for Scrabulous. And lo and behold! SCRABULOUS IS BACK!!!! It’s now called Lexulous. Who knew!? I didn’t! How did this slip by? What happened? Wasn’t Hasbro’s undies all tied up in a knot?
The Wikipedia entry explains that the Indian high court ruled that they were allowed to make the game as long as they don’t call it a name close to Scrabble. So they just renamed it Lexulous. On September 27, 2008 www.lexulous.com was launched with all the previous stats! In fact on January 1, 2009, Lexulous was back on facebook! Crazy!
Oh so what about Hasbro? They withdrew their lawsuit on December 20, 2008. Hahaha. SWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEET.
AND THERE’S A LEXULOUS IPHONE APP. Yeah, it’s $3.99. But i’ll drop that for LEXULOUS ANYDAY! Oh and the here’s the link to the Lexulous on facebook: apps.facebook.com/lexulous. Come challenge me!
Hey!..I knew this for awhile…I kept trying to start games….maybe no one knew what it was?
It seems that Hasbro is really missing the mark on this one. They should be at the forefront of putting their games onto multi-media environments such as the iPhone and Facebook instead of letting other people steal their products. In the end it doesn’t matter much for the player. As long as the game is there. I feel like a 1996 fuddy-duddy saying “multi-media”