ALBAWABA – LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social platform for professional spaces with over a billion users, wants to attempt to boost its user time spent in the app by exploring a completely new field, gaming.
Different app analysts were able to dig through LinkedIn, finding out it is developing a brand-new gaming platform through its app where One may compete against colleagues in another office or even across the nation as players' scores will be rated and arranged by their location of employment.
According to TechCrunch, It plans to accomplish this by capitalizing on the surge of puzzle games’ trend that propelled basic titles like Wordle to millions of users with viral popularity. The video games "Queens," "Inference," and "Crossclimb" are three examples of potential games to release.
“We’re playing with adding puzzle-based games within the LinkedIn experience to unlock a bit of fun, deepen relationships, and hopefully spark the opportunity for conversations,” a LinkedIn spokesperson stated in a message to TechCrunch, adding “Stay tuned for more!”
LinkedIn efforts to evolve their social network is nothing new, as workplace-standard platform has been repeatedly taking widely-used social media features and twisting them to fit a work and business box, with online learning and career advancement tools as a few.
