MacMost Now 128: iPhone Games-Scrabble, Galcon, Aurora Feint

Gary Rosenzweig looks at three iPhone Game Apps available at the iTunes App Store. Scrabble is the official version of the classic board game. Galcon is a strategy game played like an arcade game. Aurora Feint is an interesting adventure and puzzle game. You can also play free iPhone games at MacMost.com.

Review of games for the iPhone.

Scrabble: new way for celebrities to have a night on the tiles

Scrabble: new way for celebrities to have a night on the tiles.

So goes the headline on the Times online in the UK

Apparently when paparazzi turned up in Mexico to catch out Linsay Lohan and her girlfriend they found them playing scrabble the new celeb fad apparently.

To quote, Kylie Minogue, Jennifer Lopez, Madonna and the members of the indy band Blur have all claimed to enjoy Scrabble. End quote.

Not so much carpet muncher as word muncher perhaps for Lindsay.

You can read it here.

Scrabble: new way for celebrities to have a night on the tiles.

Grandma cheats at Scrabble

Bit of a musical post this.

Thought you might like this video of bad loser grandma playing scrabble, dont take the rules too seriously its done to fit the song. Done well though i thought.

Hasbo and Mattel fight Facebook over Scrabulous

Hasbo and Mattel fight Facebook over Scrabulous.

Its been reported in various websites and blogs that Hasbro and Mattel have taken umbridge over Facebooks widget to play Scrabulous. Why i dont know just like a loss leader surely getting people who wouldnt have given Scrabble a second look into playing word games who may then go out and buy the real thing for themselves or others is a good thing.

As they say in advertising no publicity is bad publicity and Scrabulous just gave Scrabble a good name. Sometimes companies have their lawyers so far up there own backsides together with there own heads that they just cant see why helping to convert the quick finger textual generation into actually spelling words correctly and improving there English might actually be good for business in the long term, someones going to make a lot of money and it will usually be the lawyers who couldnt really care less as long as they get there cut.