Saturday, August 11, 2007

board games go digital

If your box of Scrabble or one of the 18 billion versions of Monopoly are on their last legs, then fear not. Electronic Arts Inc. and Hasbro, Inc. have formed a licensing agreement in which EA will produce digital versions of Hasbro's most popular games including
  • Monopoly
  • Scrabble
  • Yahtzee
  • Nerf
  • Tonka
  • Littlest Pet Shop
The games will be featured on mobile phones and the Internet, according to an article from Reuters, and also on portable consoles, home consoles, and PC, as stated in Gamasutra's article on the partnership.

The first games (exact titles are unknown) will be released in the beginning of 2008.

Board games have been converted into video games before (I remember my friend playing Monopoly on her GameBoy Color). They usually have a simplistic interface and easy controls, and should be good clean fun for the little ones.

There's only one thing that bothers me about this whole story. And that's this guy:

1 comment:

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