Comments on: Scrabulous Voluntarily Taken Offline by Developers, NOT Shut Down by Facebook

By: Playing New Hands with Facebook Game Broadway Poker

Playing New Hands with Facebook Game Broadway Poker — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:00:29 +0000

[...] Zynga’s Texas Hold’Em Poker has proven to be one of the more durable social games on Facebook. Most newer card games that have sought to dethrone it have also limited themselves the same style of poker play. Well, a new app by the name of Broadway Poker is changing that by offering not one, but four ways to play. The developer, notably, is the Agarwalla brothers, the folks behind early social gaming hit Scrabulous, a title that helped show the potential of social gaming before running into intellectual property issues. [...]

By: Poetic Justice? Lexulous Rises Against Mattel & Hasbro

Poetic Justice? Lexulous Rises Against Mattel & Hasbro — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:37:17 +0000

[...] creators of Scrabulous, Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla, and game-maker, Hasbro, ultimately led to the voluntary shut down of the Facebook application. The suit centered around Hasbro’s intellectual property rights, as the app was claimed to [...]

By: Hasbro Drops Lawsuit Against Makers of Facebook’s Scrabulous

Hasbro Drops Lawsuit Against Makers of Facebook’s Scrabulous — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:39:45 +0000

[...] Scrabble, naming Scrabulous creators Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Agarwalla the defendants. The duo took Scrabulous down in [...]

By: Inside Facebook » Scrabulous Disappears from Facebook in the UK and Australia

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 16:31:53 +0000

[...] month after the Agarwalla brothers took Scrabulous offline in North America, Scrabulous has disappeared for Facebook users in the UK and Australia, and other locations around [...]

By: theharmonyguy

theharmonyguy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 04:47:29 +0000

Update – I think Facebook has taken Scrabulous down now. Their app URL gives a 404.

By: Social Marketing Journal

Social Marketing Journal — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:35:23 +0000

We keep seeing all the news about this game and the uproar it’s caused but are confused — was the game that good?

By: Actually, Scrabulous Shut Themselves Down. Sort of. | TooCube

Actually, Scrabulous Shut Themselves Down. Sort of. | TooCube — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:01:31 +0000

[...] this afternoon, though, Nick O’Neill at AllFacebook as well as Justin Smith at Inside Facebook both received word from the Argarwalla brothers that the exact details are slightly different from [...]

By: Actually, Scrabulous Shut Themselves Down. Sort of.

Actually, Scrabulous Shut Themselves Down. Sort of. — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:15:05 +0000

By: Social Media Blog » Blog Archive » Scrabulous Down For US And Canada

Social Media Blog » Blog Archive » Scrabulous Down For US And Canada — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 22:05:38 +0000

[...] to reports, Scrabulous isn’t dead. The game has simply been turned off in the US and Canada, where the legal trouble has been aimed. [...]

By: Inside Social Games » Blog Archive » Developers Take Scrabulous Offline in North America - Tracking the convergence of games and social networks

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:05:50 +0000

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