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EA to create Facebook Scrabble

Officially licensed version on the way

Having partly helped battle the unlicensed Facebook app Scrabulous, EA are now intent on releasing their own official Scrabble title via the social network in Europe.

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The new app will apparently be "an authorized, licensed Scrabble game experience that people familiar with Scrabble can instantly recognize as Scrabble," according to the publisher's Trudy Miller.

The down side of all this? Well, because of complex international licensing issues a different company will be releasing their own Scrabble app in the USA, meaning that EA's version won't allow European and American players to battle it out together.

Come back Scrabulous, all is forgiven?

1. Scrabulous still works for me... were they meant to be taking it down?

   Thomas Ryan Tuesday, 8 July 2008, 10:12:23