Facebook Gaming
{{Short description|Video game livestreaming platform}}
{{Infobox website
| name = Facebook
| logo = File:Facebook Gaming logo.svg File:Facebook Gaming wordmark.svg
| logo_size = 260px
| logo_caption = Facebook Gaming logo
| type = {{hlist|Live streaming|Video on demand}}
| language = 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
| language_count = 112
| area_served = Worldwide, except blocking countries
| founder = {{Unbulleted list | Mark Zuckerberg | Dustin Moskovitz | Chris Hughes | Andrew McCollum | Eduardo Saverin}}
| CEO = Mark Zuckerberg
| url = {{URL|fb.gg}}
| registration = Required (to do any activity)
| users = {{increase}} 800 millions monthly active users (as of April 2018){{cite web |title=Gaming Insights & Market Research |url=https://www.facebook.com/fbgaminghome/marketers/insights |website=Facebook.com |access-date=6 October 2024}}
| launch_date = {{Start date and age|2018|06|01}} in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US
| owner = Meta Platforms
| current_status = Active
| programming_language = 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.{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/07/facebook-launches-fb-gg-gaming-video-hub-to-compete-with-twitch/|title=Facebook launches Fb.gg gaming video hub to compete with Twitch|website=TechCrunch|date=June 7, 2018|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-19}}{{Cite web|url=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|title=Facebook is expected to launch its game-streaming platform and Twitch competitor at E3 2018|date=2018-06-08|website=Tech2|access-date=2020-02-19}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2019-03-14-facebook-announces-new-gaming-tab|title=Facebook launching new Gaming Tab|website=GamesIndustry.biz|date=March 14, 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-02-19}} Facebook launched it officially on June 1, 2018 as a tab on the Facebook app and a standalone app.{{Cite web|url=https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/14/in-a-challenge-to-twitch-and-youtube-facebook-adds-gaming-to-its-main-navigation/|title=In a challenge to Twitch and YouTube, Facebook adds 'Gaming' to its main navigation|last=Perez|first=Sarah|date=March 15, 2019|website=TechCrunch}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://sports.abs-cbn.com/esports/news/2019/07/24/world-championship-revealed-moonton-epicon-2019-59372|title=New Game, Major Update – World Championship and more revealed in MOONTON Epicon 2019: The Future Begins Global Conference|date=Jul 24, 2019|website=ABS-CBN Sports}}
The service became successful in Southeast Asia and has produced internet celebrities like ChooxTv in the Philippines.{{Cite news|last=Reyes|first=Maouie|title=9 streamers you should follow on Facebook Gaming|work=spin.ph|url=https://www.spin.ph/esports/9-streamers-you-should-follow-on-facebook-gaming-a4513-20200215-lfrm}} 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.{{Cite news|title=Facebook Gaming forbids creators from attending Mobile Legends World Championship|work=udou|url=https://udou.ph/2019/11/12/facebook-gaming-forbids-creators-from-attending-mobile-legends-world-championship/}}{{Cite news|title=Facebook discourages gaming creators from promoting Mobile Legends World Championship M1|work=IGN Southeast Asia|url=https://sea.ign.com/mobile-legends-world-championship-m1-android/155249/news/facebook-discourages-gaming-creators-from-promoting-mobile-legends-world-championship-m1}}{{dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
In 2019, Jeremy "DisguisedToast" Wang was signed to Facebook Gaming in a surprise move from Twitch.{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/twitch-loses-star-streamer-to-facebook-gaming-2019-11|title=Twitch just lost another star streamer, this time to Facebook Gaming|last=Reyes|first=Mariel Soto|website=Business Insider|access-date=2020-02-19}} Soon after, Facebook signed Super Smash Bros. star streamer Gonzalo "ZeRo" Barrios.{{Cite web|url=https://www.espn.com/esports/story/_/id/28212049/zero-latest-leave-twitch-stream-facebook|title=ZeRo latest to leave Twitch; will stream for Facebook|date=2019-12-02|website=ESPN.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-06}}
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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/sports/ronda-rousey-facebook-gaming-stream|title=Ronda Rousey lands Facebook Gaming streaming deal|last=Barrabi|first=Thomas|date=2020-02-14|website=FOXBusiness|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-22}} 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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/19/technology/facebook-app-gaming.html/|title=Facebook to Introduce an App for Gaming|newspaper=The New York Times|date=19 April 2020|language=en-US|access-date=2020-05-04|last1=Schiesel|first1=Seth}} 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.{{Cite web|last=Warren|first=Tom|date=2020-06-22|title=Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and partnering with Facebook Gaming|url=https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/22/21299032/microsoft-mixer-closing-facebook-gaming-partnership-xcloud-features|access-date=2020-06-22|website=The Verge|language=en}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Meta is shutting down the standalone Facebook Gaming app |url=https://www.engadget.com/meta-killing-standalone-facebook-gaming-app-054950726.html |access-date=2022-09-01 |website=Engadget |date=August 31, 2022 |language=en-US}}
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