Rafe Needleman reviews mobile apps and products for fun, and picks startups apart when he gets bored. He has evaluated thousands of new companies, most of which have since gone out of business. In ...

This summer, board game makers Hasbro and Mattel forced the popular Facebook gaming application Scrabulous to shut down, claiming that it violated the companies’ copyrights on the crossword board game ...

Making an online social game a hit is about more than owning the intellectual property for the concept, as game-makers Hasbro and Mattel have found out over the last year or so. They shut down a ...

The official Scrabble app, Scrabble Go, has been branded “hilarious and horrifying” after refusing to show the dictionary definition of the word ‘vagina’. Scrabble Go lets users check the definitions ...

WHAT IT IS It's the popular word game on steroids — you won't be able to hear yourself think from all the bells and whistles. HOW MUCH Free, in-app purchases from 99 cents and up COMPATIBLE WITH ...

Word nerds everywhere rejoiced at news this week that Scrabble is now available as a free app for Android, but this nerd finds this latest version of the classic game a little lacking. I have a strong ...