Facebook Instant Games gets livestreams — Angry Birds, multiplayer video chat to come

Facebook launched Instant Games on its Messenger platform earlier this year with 20 games. It’s since grown its library to 70, including arcade classics like Tetris as well as modern scrolling shooters BlackStorm Labs’s EverWing. And starting today, you’ll be able to livestream your sessions. Facebook also announced today that games such as Rovio Entertainment’s Angry Birds will be joining the Instant Games platform next year, along with integrated video chat in multiplayer games starting with Zynga’s Words with Friends.

“We know that video is extraordinarily important to discovering and sharing,” said Facebook’s global director of games partnerships Leo Olebe. “We wanted to make sure to tap into that and give our users the chance to show off the games they’re playing and the games they’ve fallen in love with.”