Words With Friends Updated: Adds Facebook Connect - Challenge Your Facebook Friends!
by Joe White
April 7, 2011
The popular iOS game, Words with Friends, has recently been updated. Now, users of the app can challenge Facebook friends via a new "Facebook Connect" feature. Both the iPhone and iPod touch, as well as the HD iPad version of Words with Friends have received the update (version 4.0).
Features of the new Facebook Connect feature (as noted by the app's developer in its release notes) include:
Additionally, users of the iPad app can now take advantage of full multitasking support. Other features of the update include a refined game list (now, the oldest moves are displayed first), and "lots of bug fixes." Currently, both versions of the app - Words with Friends, and Words with Friends HD - are available to download for $2.99. However, a free version of each can also be downloaded (iPhone and iPod touch, iPad). Check the app out, and let us know your thoughts in the comments.
- Link your account to your Facebook profile
- See profile pics and names in the games list
- Find your Facebook friends that are playing Words With Friends and start games with them
- If you aren't on Facebook or prefer not to link your account, you can continue to play with your Games With Friends username