Your Discord friends list may soon appear directly in the games you play

Discord has a permanent spot in most of our taskbars, but even those who haven't accepted the ubiquitous chat app into their lives may soon be using its services directly in the games they play (or possibly already are).

Today, the company is launching the Discord Social SDK. It's a free way for game developers to add friends lists, voice and text chat, and other social features to their games, and it doesn't require players to have Discord accounts.

Players who do link their Discord accounts...