As the latest Electronic Arts/Hasbro board game collaboration for the iPod, Scrabble ($5) lets one or two players compete to make words from individual letter tiles that are dispensed at random from a pool, earning extra points for use of more challenging letters and more unreachable spots on a large grid. Scrabble includes a classic mode, modes based on points or rounds, and three levels of difficulty, as well as features intended to help novice…
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News: EA releases Scrabble, updates Mini Golf iPod game
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Alongside the re-release of Mini Golf, Electronic Arts today released Scrabble as a downloadable game for the third-generation iPod nano, iPod classic, and fifth-generation iPod. Mini Golf was originally released in 2006 as one of the first iPod games, and lets players putt their way through three themed courses, complete with various obstacles and secret shortcuts. Based on the popular crossword game, Scrabble lets players vie for high score by forming…
To Cambridge’s partial credit, i765 isn’t just another iPod speaker system; it can be thought of as a Bose Wave Radio-style all-in-one enclosure, only taller, with room at the bottom for the subwoofer to breathe, and a Universal iPod Dock on top next to a Snooze bar. Like the Wave Radio II, there’s a small digital clock on the front, an AM/FM radio inside, and the promise of shielded speakers for minimal TV or computer monitor…