From the mini backgrounds and goodies we’ve seen (and knowing that Hasbro and Pogo have aligned to bring Hasbro favorites to Pogo), we can tell you that Scrabble is coming to (Club?) Pogo soon!
In addition, we can confirm this news with this Electronic Arts job listing (and a couple others) that mentions Scrabble as coming to Pogo as a result of the Hasbro deal. “Join one of Electronic Art’s fastest growing divisions – Pogo.com! Pogo has rapid expansion plans for the coming year. As a result of a multi year deal with Hasbro, Pogo will be adding branded games such as Monopoly and Scrabble.”
The most interesting part of this scoop is that in January 2008, Hasbro had started the process of shutting down Scrabulous, a site where you can play Scrabble online. Scrabulous has since removed all mention of the word “Scrabble” from their site, however the game remains the same, more or less a direct copy/clone of Scrabble. Scrabulous got a lot of their notoriety through their Facebook application and when Hasbro came after Scrabulous, Facebook users created a group called “Save Scrabulous!” (You can find more information on the Scrabulous Wikipedia page).
Lately, Pogo has been positioning itself on Facebook. And now that Pogo and Hasbro are creating a version of Scrabble for online play, could this be the death knell for Scrabulous? Only time will tell…
Filed under: coming soon/rumors, scrabble
