Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) has announced that they are creating 3 games for the Google Android operating system available in the Android Market.  These three games include Tetris, Bejeweled, and Monopoly Here & Now.  Tetris is available now, but the other two will be in the Android Market next month.

EA has at least 5 games running on the iPhone.  These include Tetris, Spore Origins, and Scrabble. All of these games are powered by EA’s Mobile division.  This is great news for Google as EA is one of the biggest game distribution companies in the world.

I think it’s about time that Rockstar Games creates miniature versions of the Grand Theft Auto game for the iPhone and Google Android operating systems.  Or perhaps create something as addictive as their console smash hit games.

Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is seeing tremendous sales through the App Store.  So far Apple has sold over 100 million apps - 70 million in August alone.  Given the current rate that Apple is selling applications, they are expected to sell over 1 billion applications by 2009.  This is much faster than the time Apple reached 1 billion in music download sales.  It took Apple 2 years to reach that landmark.

Apple increased a new line of iPods at their latest “Let’s Rock” event.  By giving consumers additional choices for music players, it is likely that they will see an increase in sales of their music player.  By increasing the sales of music players, Apple will more than likely increase the rate of applications and music sold.

During the holiday season, it is expected that the download rate will surge.  However, Apple will have to remain extra-competitive with new services starting to appear.  Amazon recently restructured their video download service.  MySpace Music will be launching later this week with free music streaming and paid downloads. 

Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) distributes Spore, the number one application selling at $9.99 per download. The current top 10 paid applications are:

1. Spore Origins

2. PocketGuitar

3. Koi Pond

4. Asphalt 4

5. Air Hockey

6. Ambiance

7. Where To?

8. What’s On?

9. iMprint

10. Election 08′

Pulse 2.0 commenter, Adam Rinkleff pointed out that Scrabulous has relaunched into a new game called Wordscraper.  This news comes one day after the blogosphere reported that Scrabulous, an application created by Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Aggarwalla, was shut-down.

Below is the description of the new game:

Welcome to Wordscraper. It’s the only game on Facebook that allows you to play the game the way you want to! With Wordscraper you can build your own board and try out whacky combinations with special high value squares.

So give it a try, you will love it. Don’t follow rules, make them!

The new game already has close to 200 daily active users.  What will EA and Hasbro do about this game?  Hopefully nothing.

Click here to add the new application.

Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS) has beaten Scrabulous in a game of copyright takedown.  Scrabulous was the first Scrabble game on Facebook.  Then Hasbro created their own Scrabble application on Facebook and sued the founders of Scrabulous, Rajat Agarwalla and Jayant Aggarwalla.  Hasbro told Facebook to remove Scrabulous under copyright law within the Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA).

Scrabulous took themselves down in compliance with the lawsuit:
“Scrabulous is disabled for U.S. and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed about developments in this matter, please click here.”  The Scrabulous application is available on Facebook outside of North America.  Scrabulous still seems to be working on Scrabulous.com.

Facebook spokesman, David Swain stated that the social networking company is not taking sides between the Hasbro and Scrabulous dispute.  “We’re trying to maintain just being a neutral platform.”

Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS) created the Scrabble application for Hasbro.

Related Links:
1. Scrabulous.com
2. NYT
3. Mashable