Microsoft has introduced a brand new app referred to as Games for Work to Teams, permitting customers to play informal multi-participant video games collectively. According to Engadget, as much as 250 gamers can play Microsoft Solitaire, Microsoft Minesweeper, Microsoft IceBreakers, and Microsoft Wordament with every different.
Microsoft says the concept in the back of growing the sport is to assist co-workers “pause and re-energise” in a digital workplace setting, in step with the report. With Solitaire, gamers will compete in opposition to every different to complete first, even as with Minesweeper, gamers will paintings collectively to clean the board and every participant may have some lives.
However, Wordament is a phrase game. There could be a leaderboard wherein gamers can see how they fare in comparison with their co-workers. In IceBreakers, gamers solution questions on precise subjects and possibly analyze greater approximately their colleagues withinside the process, stated the report.
To expand Games for Work, Team Members labored with Microsoft Casual Games, an Xbox Game Studios division. The organization cites records that shows groups that play 45-minute video games collectively are 20 in keeping with cent greater effective than those who do different styles of group constructing.
“Research suggests that gaming promotes cognitive benefits, enables foster empathy and encourages inclusion, group constructing and learning,” it stated.