By Caroline McCarthy – October 23, 2007, 4:51 AM PDT

News Corp.-owned social-networking site MYSPACE.com announced on Tuesday that it has PARTNERED with casual-game maker Oberon Games, part of Oberon Media, to create a "channel" of social games.

Slated to launch in January, MySpace Games will allow users of the service to play games against other MySpace members and embed game WIDGETS in their profiles.

Additionally--as it seems that there just can't be a social-networking ANNOUNCEMENT without talk of the "D" word--developers will be able to submit ideas for new games, and Oberon will be providing a developer toolkit when the game site launches.

Currently, the games.myspace.com subdomain encourages users to "STAY tuned for updates." It offers them an array of video game-related videos instead of actual games.

http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9802447-2.html?tag=cnetfd.mtI think they're trying to copy some of the features found on Facebook that's making it so popular in hopes to compete. However, I believe they need A LOT more than just simple widgets and games that are only going to help clutter the MySpace pages even more in order to not get overtaken by Facebook.