Craving a little Minesweeper with your social networking? MySpace is reportedly partnering with Oberon Media Inc. to add casual gaming options to the site.
Oberon, which focuses on games for cell phones and PCs, will debut its offerings on MySpace starting in January, according to the WSJ. Users tired of re-arranging their Top 8 or creating backgrounds that make the rest of their pages indecipherable can now amuse themselves with a game of virtual backgammon or an Agatha Christie murder mystery.
The idea is that users will invite their friends to multiplayer games and chat while playing. If anything, these basic offerings just speak to the site's limited platform. I've admittedly ignored the News Corp.-owned MySpace of late in favor of Facebook and its constant, stalker level friend updates. While these games might help me briefly procrastinate, I'm not sure they will help draw me, or others, back to MySpace. Never underestimate the power of Rupert, however.
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