Words with Friends, from Newtoy, turned Scrabble into a slow, asynchronous game between phones, with dozens of matches running at once. It was huge on the iPhone in 2010, arrived on Android in 2011, and Zynga bought Newtoy in December 2010.
- Developer
- Newtoy
- Publisher
- Newtoy, then Zynga
- Released
- July 2009
- Platforms
- iPhone, iPad
- Genre
- Word game
- Kind of game
- mobile
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