New York - Following legal actions taken by toymaker Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) to get "Scrabulous," a Web knock-off version of its "Scrabble" removed from the Facebook social network in the U.S., Mattel (NYSE: MAT) -- which owns the rights to Scrabble outside of North America -- has compelled Facebook to take Scrabulous down in most of the rest of the world, the Associated Press reports. The one region where Scrabulous remains available in India, where developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla reside -- but Mattel has filed suit against the brothers there as well.

Los Angeles - Scrabulous, the popular Web knock-off version of Hasbro's Scrabble on Facebook whose creators took the game down after being sued by Hasbro (NYSE: HAS), has relaunched on the social network as "Wordscraper," an essentially similar game that makes changes to its name and other characteristics. The move is no doubt aimed at testing the boundaries of copyright and trademark claims under current laws.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS) claims that malicious hackers were behind the inability to access its official "Scrabble" online game on the Facebook social network, which was downed yesterday and still unavailable on Wednesday morning, according to reports.

Los Angeles - "Scrabulous," the popular Web knock-off version of Hasbro's (NYSE: HAS) official "Scrabble" that was recently targeted with a copyright infringement lawsuit, has been removed from the U.S. and Canadian versions of online social network Facebook. "In response to a legal request from Hasbro, the copyright and trademark holder for Scrabble in the U.S. and Canada, the developers of Scrabulous have suspended their application in the U.S. and Canada until further notice," a Facebook representative told CNET News.com.

Pawtucket, R.I. - Toymaker Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) has taken its previous demands a step further and today filed a copyright infringement suit against the makers of "Scrabulous," a knock-off version of its "Scrabble" board game that counts over 510,000 daily active users on Facebook.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts (NASD: ERTS) said on Monday that it has partnered with toymaker Hasbro (NYSE: HAS) to launch a version of "Scrabble" for the Facebook social network and Pogo.com. The official version of the game will compete, however, with "Scrabulous," a knock-off version that counts millions of users. CNET News.com points out that the official Scrabble game on Facebook outside the U.S. (licensed in those regions by Mattel) claims fewer than 4,000 daily users.

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.

East Longmeadow, Mass. - Toymaker Hasbro's games division said on Tuesday that it has signed a multi-year licensing deal for the rights to the popular arcade game, Skee-Ball. Hasbro expects to bring its first Skee-Ball branded products to market by early 2009.

Redwood City, Calif. - Electronic Arts announced on Friday that it has signed a licensing deal with Rhode Island-based game and toy manufacturer Hasbro. The deal, which runs through 2013, gives EA exclusive worldwide rights to create digital games based Hasbro's intellectual properties, including "Monopoly," "Scrabble," "Yahtzee," "Nerf," "Tonka" and "Littlest Pet Shop." The first games for mobile, online, handheld, PC and console platforms are scheduled to launch next year.

Lyon, France - Struggling video game publisher Infogrames, the parent company of Atari, announced on Thursday that it has sold the digital gaming rights for Hasbro's "Monopoly," "Scrabble," "Clue," "Battleship" and other titles back to the toymaker for $19.5 million.