Facebook Game Tab is the new home for gaming content on Facebook.
Facebook Game Tab is the new home for gaming content on Facebook.
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Facebook launches gaming tab as a shortcut to gamer culture

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook is launching a new way to view gaming content on the social network: the Facebook Gaming tab. The tab is in its initial rollout today to tens of millions of people, and that will expand to more people in the coming weeks.

Last year, Facebook announced a redesign to the mobile app navigation bar on Facebook for people to get personalized shortcuts to the products they use most often. The Facebook Gaming tab is one of those shortcuts, said Vijaye Raji, vice president of gaming at Facebook in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.