Scrabulous Apocalypse


	Scrabulous Apocalypse

David M Ewalt

7-29-2008 11:52 AM

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facebook, scrabulous, scrabble, hasbro

David M Ewalt says:

The game was a blatant copy of Scrabble, and there's no question it was violating all kinds of copyrights. But it got on the site long before Scrabble maker Hasbro ever launched their own application, so huge numbers of Facebook users got addicted to the game.

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