After launching their own application on Facebook, Hasbro has finally sued Scrabulous for “IP infringement”, specifically copyright and trademark, I believe.

Separately, they have asked Facebook to remove the application under the terms of the DMCA.

Unfortunately for me, if Scrabulous is taken down, I will have no way (On Facebook) to play Scrabble with my friends in the U.S., as Hasbro’s application works only in North America, and Mattel’s version works only outside of North America.

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The Sengalese Sports Minister is so excited about this year’s international francophone Srabble being hosted in Sengal, that he commissioned a song for the occasion.

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The Sengalese are apparently mad about the game, with sets available on virtually every street corner and family Scrabble nights played as sport, rather than mere entertainment.

Meanwhile, the Sengalese national literacy rate is under 40%.

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With the Dragon Ball CCG only a few days old, Bandai is already announcing the second release, an expansion called The Awakening.

Available October 17, the new set will contain an additional 100 cards in boosters. Some first reviews of the game describe it as for die-hard fans who like complex and slow games.

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The small Shetland island of Fetlar will be staging the World Quickplay Hnefatafl Championship on August 2nd. Hnefatafl, translating as Kings Table, is an ancient Viking board game. In it, each of the two players tries to capture or block the opposing king. Fetlar, already claiming to have the highest concentration of Hnefatafl players in the world among its 50-strong population, nevertheless hopes that the tournament will raise its profile.

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A recent article in the Evening Gazette honored the tenth anniversary of the founding of the Middlesbrough Gamers Club. The club meets weekly and attracts around 40 players for board games, card games, and miniatures. For games of Warhammer, players use a model of Middlesbrough for terrain.

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The GURPS roleplaying system uses point-buy character generation without any mandatory classes or restrictive professions. With this approach a player can generally build exactly the type of character the player wants, subject perhaps to the limit of the points available. Skills, equipment, contacts, privileges, and shortcomings all have a point cost—positive for benefits, negative for detriments. One component of this system is perks. Perks are those single point traits that don’t provide much in the way of concrete advantage but do add depth and personality to the character. So now the latest release from Steve Jackson Games is GURPS Power-Ups 2: Perks, a complete collection of all the perks found in all GURPS Fourth Edition products, plus a number of new perks, for a total of over 160.

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Though we covered the Chaotic collectible card game a couple of times before (here and here), it was, admittedly, not with a lot of enthusiasm. After nearly 2 million unique visitors and 25 million cards registered, however, Chaotic’s publisher, 4Kids Entertainment subsidiary TC Digital Games, continues to expand and improve the game’s online aspects. New features include an army builder, animations and sound effects, and a discard viewer. TC Digital has also launched an organized play program. Chaotic Battledrome Events are scheduled for Wizard World Philadelphia, Origins Games Fair, San Diego Comic-Con, Gen Con Indy, Fan Expo Canada, and Gen Con Australia.

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