As we all know, RealNetworks has recently introduced Scrabble by Mattel in Facebook to fight with Scrabulous, the wildly popular, unauthorized online version of the board game.
However, the game, an online version of Scrabble, is technically available only to players outside the United States and Canada since Hasbro owns the rights to Scrabble in North America, and Mattel in the rest of the world.
Scrabble by Mattel looks like the real game but online and with animation
Though aesthetically-pleasing, the game is somewhat very lagging compared to Scrabulous. Maybe it’s the heavy animation and the entire application that cause the loading time to be slow. I have no problem playing with Scrabulous.
In the "Review Games" section, you can view all your games with a real-time clock
Unlike Scrabulous, Scrabble by Mattel shows real-time clock as the game is "Live". For now, it’s still too soon to tell. But I will definitely play both the games as I like both of them.
There is a new game in town, at least for the casual gaming people. Mytopia has launched on Facebook, Bebo and MySpace with eight games (Chess, Backgammon, Sudoku, Dominoes, Bingo, Spades, Hearts, Video Poker. You can also play the games on Mytopia site as well.
Mytopia on Facebook
Come Monday, it will release the same games across the major Web and desktop widgets: iGoogle Gadgets, Apple Dashboard Widgets, Yahoo Widgets and Windows Vista Toolbar Widgets.
Play Sudoku on Mytopia
So, what are you waiting for? Come challenge me on Sudoku on Facebook.
Don’t forget to turn off pop-up blockers for your browsers though. And for optimum game play, set your browsers to open a new tab instead a new window (which you can’t resize).
The company’s latest installment, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock is now that best selling single-year video game title of all time in terms of units and total dollar amount.
Instead of voting for your favorite election candidate, you can now have your fave candidate brawl against the opposition. And it’s going to be bloody! Quite fun.
