BlackBerry Messenger is said to be getting an update to version 6. Although there is no official release date some new features have been leaked. Take these with a grain of salt for now as this is still at the rumor stage.

BlackBerry Messenger 6 leaked features:

The ability to play games and use your BBM user name as your gamer name

Cross chats between users over BBM (and it looks like you and the other parties playing don’t have to be on each other friends list)

Also, when we complete tasks on these new games our status will change to show what task we completed (sounds like its similar to the “show what i am listening to tab” and will probably have an option to share with your BBM contacts or hide it from your contacts)

It also seems like on BBM6, BBM groups will be able to handle more members

The new BBM6 will be supported on all devices running OS 5+ (at least for now)

Looks like a mobile game developer company by the name of “Gamemachi” is working on game(s) for this new BBM6 platform.