Facebook is already a massive distraction at work, but things are about to get a whole lot worse.<\/p>\n
Facebook is opening up its Messenger app to outside game developers, the company announced Tuesday, with some of the first titles including Pac-Man, Galaga, Space Invaders and more modern fare like Words With Friends, reports Time<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n All you have to do to begin playing is tap the icon that looks like a video game controller located underneath the text entry field in a message.<\/p>\n You can then compete for a high scores with friends which will then\u00a0will appear in the thread.<\/p>\n Other friends in the chat will then be able to challenge that score and keep track of how each player stacks up via a leaderboard that appears when launching the game.<\/p>\n The platform will begin rolling out between now and the end of 2017.<\/p>\n And you thought your current Facebook addiction was bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":112519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[31,721,21035,199,1587],"class_list":["post-112517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-active","tag-arcade","tag-classic","tag-facebook","tag-retro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNow read:\u00a0Blizzard and Facebook are teaming up to create the world\u2019s biggest gaming network<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"