Draw Something 2 Review (Modojo)
John Bedford (Modojo): A quick history of Draw Something for newcomers. In 1985, Angel Games publishes a game called Pictionary, a turn-based sketch-guessing party game. In 2012, developer OMGPOP releases what is for all intents and purposes a digital version of that same game, and it does so just as the social mobile gaming scene starts skirting the stratosphere.
Everyone's playing and talking about it – critics, celebrities, talkshow hosts, people who would never normally admit in public that they play games. As a result, Zynga buys the studio for a chuckle-worthy $183 million, the CEO and founder of developer OMGPOP goes mad in public over post-acquisition, ex-employee "dissent", and then the game fades into the shadows of popular culture as all such things do.
