Real Networks has launched an official version of Mattel’s Scrabble on Facebook. This will go toe to toe with the highly-popular an unofficial Scrabulous.
Scrabulous, the Scrabble rip-off, has been garnering over 600,000 users daily, but is now facing competition from the real thing.
Real Networks has created Scrabble for Facebook users outside of the U.S. and Canada.
Since Hasbro owns the rights to the game in the U.S. and Canada, they cannot release the game in North America. Electronic Arts already has a deal to create a Scrabble game.
It was thought originally that Real Networks would buy out Scrabulous, but instead they went for the official Scrabble game.
The new version is in beta and is reportedly very buggy still.
The game has been receiving less than 2,000 users daily, compared to over 600,000 for Scrabulous.