Software:Facebook Gaming
  Facebook Gaming logo | |
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| Available in | Multilingual Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belarusian, Bengali, Bosnian, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Catalan, Cebuano, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Dutch (België), English (UK), English (US), English (upside down), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Filipino, Finnish, French (Canada), French (France), Frisian, Fula, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Guarani, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Japanese (Kansai), Javanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda, Korean, Kurdish (Kurmanji), Kyrgyz, Lao, Latvian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Marathi, Mongolian, Nepali, Norwegian (bokmal), Norwegian (nynorsk), Odia, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Sardinian, Serbian, Shona, Silesian, Simplified Chinese (China), Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Sorani Kurdish, Spanish, Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Syriac, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Tetun, Thai, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Traditional Chinese (Taiwan), Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh and Zaza |
| Area served | Worldwide, except blocking countries |
| Owner | Meta Platforms |
| Founder(s) |
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| CEO | Mark Zuckerberg |
| Website | fb |
| Registration | Required (to do any activity) |
| Users |  800 millions monthly active users (as of April 2018)[1] |
| Launched | June 1, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | C++, Hack (as HHVM) and PHP |
Facebook Gaming is Facebook's gaming-focused live streaming service.[3][4][5] Facebook launched it officially on June 1, 2018 as a tab on the Facebook app and a standalone app.[6]
The service became successful in Southeast Asia and has produced internet celebrities like ChooxTv in the Philippines.[7]
In 2019, Jeremy "DisguisedToast" Wang was signed to Facebook Gaming.[8] Soon after, Facebook also signed Super Smash Bros. streamer Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios.[9]
On February 18, 2020, Ronda Rousey performed her first live stream on Facebook Gaming, announcing that she will stream once per week. The details of her contract were not disclosed.[10] On April 20, 2020, Facebook launched its gaming app to more countries.[11] On June 22, 2020, Microsoft announced that it would discontinue its Mixer streaming service, and redirect users (including partnered streamers) to Facebook Gaming. In return, there would be integrations with Facebook Gaming and Microsoft's xCloud cloud gaming service.[12]
In August 2022, Meta announced that it was shutting down its standalone gaming app, but users could still play games by going to the gaming tab in the main Facebook app.[13]
References
- ↑ "Gaming Insights & Market Research". https://www.facebook.com/fbgaminghome/marketers/insights.
- ↑ "Facebook Interface Languages". https://www.facebook.com/language.php.
- ↑ "Facebook launches Fb.gg gaming video hub to compete with Twitch" (in en-US). June 7, 2018. https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/07/facebook-launches-fb-gg-gaming-video-hub-to-compete-with-twitch/.
- ↑ "Facebook is expected to launch its game-streaming platform and Twitch competitor at E3 2018". 2018-06-08. https://www.firstpost.com/tech/gaming/facebook-is-planning-to-take-on-twitch-with-its-new-gaming-section-and-monetisation-opportunities-for-streamers-4501793.html.
- ↑ "Facebook launching new Gaming Tab" (in en). March 14, 2019. https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-03-14-facebook-announces-new-gaming-tab.
- ↑ Perez, Sarah (March 15, 2019). "In a challenge to Twitch and YouTube, Facebook adds 'Gaming' to its main navigation". https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/in-a-challenge-to-twitch-and-youtube-facebook-adds-gaming-to-its-main-navigation/.
- ↑ Reyes, Maouie. "9 streamers you should follow on Facebook Gaming". spin.ph. https://www.spin.ph/esports/9-streamers-you-should-follow-on-facebook-gaming-a4513-20200215-lfrm.
- ↑ Reyes, Mariel Soto. "Twitch just lost another star streamer, this time to Facebook Gaming". https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-loses-star-streamer-to-facebook-gaming-2019-11.
- ↑ "ZeRo latest to leave Twitch; will stream for Facebook" (in en). 2019-12-02. https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/28212049/zero-latest-leave-twitch-stream-facebook.
- ↑ Barrabi, Thomas (2020-02-14). "Ronda Rousey lands Facebook Gaming streaming deal" (in en-US). https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/ronda-rousey-facebook-gaming-stream.
- ↑ Schiesel, Seth (19 April 2020). "Facebook to Introduce an App for Gaming" (in en-US). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/technology/facebook-app-gaming.html/.
- ↑ Warren, Tom (2020-06-22). "Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming" (in en). https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21299032/microsoft-mixer-closing-facebook-gaming-partnership-xcloud-features.
- ↑ Moon, Mariella (August 31, 2022). "Meta is shutting down the standalone Facebook Gaming app" (in en-US). https://www.engadget.com/meta-killing-standalone-facebook-gaming-app-054950726.html.
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