LinkedIn is planning to add a games section to its social media platform.revealing in-app titles named Blueprint, Crossclimb, and Queens. The idea is that companies will be ranked on leaderboards based on their collective employees' scores.
LinkedIn's planned games look to be simple, short games which can be completed in a few minutes, similar to The New York Times' Wordle or Connections. Going off the images alone, Queens looks like Picross with an extra constraint added, while Blueprint looks like a simpler version of the first round in Only Connect where you need to guess what connects a number of clues.
LinkedIn's spokesperson declined to comment on whether its parent company Microsoft was involved with the games feature. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn in 2016 for $26.2bn, which made it Microsoft's largest acquisition until its