Facebook Gaming is Facebook's take on gaming livestreams where gamers and fans interact, with a pool of gaming streamers including Darkness429, Stonemountain64, ThePoolshark, and Alodia Gosiengfiao.[3][4][5] Facebook launched it officially on June 1, 2018 as a tab on the Facebook app and a standalone app.[6] It also has an In-stream Rewards feature where viewers are gifted in-game rewards while watching streams with Mobile Legends: Bang Bang being a part of pioneering the feature as mentioned by Jack Li, a Facebook Gaming representative, on Moonton Epicon held last July 18, 2019.[7]
  Facebook Gaming logo | |
Type of site | |
|---|---|
| Available in | 112 languages[1] |
List of languages 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) | |
| CEO | Mark Zuckerberg |
| URL | fb |
| Registration | Required (to do any activity) |
| Users |  800 millions monthly active users (as of April 2018)[2] |
| Launched | June 1, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US |
| Current status | Active |
| Written in | C++, Hack (as HHVM) and PHP |
The service became successful in Southeast Asia and has produced internet celebrities like ChooxTv in the Philippines.[8] It has been the official streaming partner for MSC 2019 and other Mobile Legends esports events. After its competitor YouTube Gaming became the official partner for the Mobile Legends: Bang Bang World Championship M1, IGN SEA reported in an article that has now been taken down that Facebook Gaming did not allow its streamers to go to the event.[9][10]
In 2019, Jeremy "DisguisedToast" Wang was signed to Facebook Gaming in a surprise move from Twitch.[11] Soon after, Facebook signed Super Smash Bros. star streamer Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios.[12]
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.[13] On April 20, 2020, Facebook launched its gaming app to more countries, which was actually planned to release in June 2020, but released earlier upon witnessing the community demand.[14] 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.[15]
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.[16]
References
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- ^ "Gaming Insights & Market Research". Facebook.com. Retrieved 6 October 2024.
- ^ "Facebook launches Fb.gg gaming video hub to compete with Twitch". TechCrunch. June 7, 2018. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- ^ "Facebook is expected to launch its game-streaming platform and Twitch competitor at E3 2018". Tech2. 2018-06-08. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- ^ "Facebook launching new Gaming Tab". GamesIndustry.biz. March 14, 2019. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- ^ Perez, Sarah (March 15, 2019). "In a challenge to Twitch and YouTube, Facebook adds 'Gaming' to its main navigation". TechCrunch.
- ^ "New Game, Major Update – World Championship and more revealed in MOONTON Epicon 2019: The Future Begins Global Conference". ABS-CBN Sports. Jul 24, 2019.
- ^ Reyes, Maouie. "9 streamers you should follow on Facebook Gaming". spin.ph.
- ^ "Facebook Gaming forbids creators from attending Mobile Legends World Championship". udou.
- ^ "Facebook discourages gaming creators from promoting Mobile Legends World Championship M1". IGN Southeast Asia.[permanent dead link]
- ^ Reyes, Mariel Soto. "Twitch just lost another star streamer, this time to Facebook Gaming". Business Insider. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
- ^ "ZeRo latest to leave Twitch; will stream for Facebook". ESPN.com. 2019-12-02. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
- ^ Barrabi, Thomas (2020-02-14). "Ronda Rousey lands Facebook Gaming streaming deal". FOXBusiness. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
- ^ Schiesel, Seth (19 April 2020). "Facebook to Introduce an App for Gaming". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^ Warren, Tom (2020-06-22). "Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- ^ "Meta is shutting down the standalone Facebook Gaming app". Engadget. August 31, 2022. Retrieved 2022-09-01.