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Facebook unveils free-to-play cloud gaming service

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Facebook has unveiled a free-to-play cloud gaming service for sharing and playing games. The service is part of Facebook Gaming and is now in a beta test for a limited number of people.

The move takes Facebook deeper into the distribution of games, in addition to Instant Games people can play via its messaging service and News Feed. The cloud gaming service will launch with just five games. That may sound like a timid way for a tech giant to expand its presence in gaming. But the service already has 200,000 users, which is more than most challengers to the traditional game platforms can manage, even with their official launches.

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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.