LinkedIn is planning so as to add a video games part to its social media platform.
Proof of the deliberate function was first discovered by app researchers, with pictures shared by Nima Owji revealing in-app titles named Blueprint, Crossclimb, and Queens. The thought is that firms shall be ranked on leaderboards based mostly on their collective workers’ scores.
LinkedIn’s deliberate video games look to be easy, brief video games which could be accomplished in a couple of minutes, just like The New York Occasions’ Wordle or Connections. Going off the photographs alone, Queens appears like Picross with an additional constraint added, whereas Blueprint appears like a less complicated model of the primary spherical in Solely Join the place it’s essential to guess what connects a variety of clues.
Following the video games’ discovery, LinkedIn has now formally confirmed a video games part is within the works (thanks, TechCrunch).
“We’re taking part in with including puzzle-based video games inside the LinkedIn expertise to unlock a little bit of enjoyable, deepen relationships, and hopefully spark the chance for conversations,” a LinkedIn spokesperson acknowledged. (The photographs shared by Owji aren’t the most recent variations, the spokesperson added.)
LinkedIn’s spokesperson declined to touch upon whether or not its father or mother firm Microsoft was concerned with the video games function. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2bn, which made it Microsoft’s largest acquisition till its $68.7bn deal to purchase Activision Blizzard.