Hasbro Looks to Shut Down "Scrabulous" Online Scrabble Game

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 14, 2008 - 1:18pm.

New York - Toymaker Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) is seeking to shut down Scrabulous, the online version of its Scrabble board game that counts 2.3 million active users on Facebook and attracted 70 million page views in the past month, Fortune.com reports. Scrabulous co-creator Jayant Agarwalla told Fortune.com that ad revenues from the game are "over $25,000 a month." Hasbro did not respond to Fortune.com's request for comment on the matter.

 

Related Links:
http://snipurl.com/1xg8k (Forbes.com)

http://www.hasbro.com

http://www.scrabulous.com



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