Zynga and Hasbro Partner On Board Games

Zynga has Hasbro has partnered with each other to create board games based on Zynga’s popular titles and merging them with Hasbro’s popular games like Monopoly and Hungry Hungry Hippos.  The new games will be Cityville Monopoly, Farmville Hungry Hungry Herd, Draw Something, and Word With Friends (formatted to be like Scrabble). Most of these games will come with digital values that can be used to a players’ online or mobile game that can be redeemed for Farm Cash in Facebook.

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Hasbro Monopoly LIVE and Battleship LIVE Board Games Will Have Electronic Tower

Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ:HAS) has showcased two new games at the American International Toy Fair in New York City. “From the moment the tower is switched on, the tower comes to life. The game is fun, fast-paced, easy to play and incredibly engaging,” stated Hasbro CMO John Frascotti. “LIVE games offer the great face-to-face social play that everyone loves about board games while delivering a totally new, surprising and unique game experience.”
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Hasbro Unveiling A Device For iOS Called My3D

Toy and action figure company Hasbro, Inc. (NYSE:HAS) is creating a new device for iOS that would let you view 3-D content on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. The device is called My3D and it will cost $30. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) worked closely with Hasbro on the development of the device. Sony, IMAX, and a TV network backed by Discovery helped produce content for the device as well. [MacRumors]

Matthias Wandel Invents Jenga Pistol

Jenga is one of Hasbro’s most popular games.  You build a tower of blocks and each player takes turn removing one block from the tower.  While this is a great game to play at parties, it can sometimes be a little too unexciting.  That is until Matthias Wandel invented a Jenga pistol that shoots a block out using a rubberband as displayed in the image above.

The pistol hurls a wooden bolt forward inside the pistol powered by rubber bands.  That is enough forward momentum to bold the Jenga block out in frontof the gun without causing the stack to collapse.  Its too bad that the Jenga pistol isn’t up for sale.  I would have loved to whip this thing out whenever someone challenged me to a game.

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Scrabulous Relaunches Under A New Facebook App Name Called Wordscraper

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.