Ludacris has published his first game, Slang N' Friendz
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Ludacris launches Scrabble-like Slang N’ Friendz mobile game

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Everybody uses slang, but you can’t use those words in games like Scrabble. So Ludacris, the hip hop entertainer, is launching a new word game on mobile today dubbed Slang N’ Friendz.

Ludacris' Slang N' Friendz lets you play slang words.
Ludacris’ Slang N’ Friendz lets you play slang words.

In this Scrabble-like game, you can play slang words from any culture around the world, so long as it fits in the game’s dictionary of nearly 10,000 words. It a fun concept for a game, and it’s also a statement about how games should reflect the way real people talk, said Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.