Facebook Gaming

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Type of site
Available in112 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 servedWorldwide, except blocking countries
Owner Meta Platforms
Founder(s)
CEOMark Zuckerberg
URL fb.gg
RegistrationRequired (to do any activity)
Users Increase2.svg 800 millions monthly active users (as of April 2018) [2]
LaunchedJune 1, 2018;6 years ago (2018-06-01) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
Current statusActive
Written in C++, Hack (as HHVM) and PHP

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]

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]

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