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It seems like the New York Times Company wants to bring together Microsoft's and Sony'south spending spree by purchasing a little corner of the gaming sphere. The New York Times magazine owners accept appear today that it has purchased the web-based hit Wordle for a cost "in the low seven figures." This announcement comes hours later Sony appear its acquisition of Bungie, and less than two weeks from Microsoft'southward buy of Activision Blizzard.

Ane of the most important factors to Wordle'southward appeal is that it is free, and at that place are already concerns that the New York Times Company will put Wordle under a paywall like to how the New York Times website functions. For example, you can't read the commodity that officially announces the New York Times bought Wordle without a subscription.

At this moment, the New York Times promises "the game would initially remain free to new and existing players." It should be pointed out that the quote specifically has "initially," which strongly suggests that the company will most probable try to monetize it in the time to come.

Wordle is a word game where players will receive a grid of blocks, and each block has a hidden letter. Some of the blocks are light-green, and it is upwardly to the player to guess what word makes upwardly the green blocks. The game concluded up being a huge striking on social media, with hundreds of Twitter accounts sharing their daily Wordle blocks. It was but a matter of fourth dimension before a bigger company buys Wordle, simply few would have guessed the New York Times would be the ones.