Facebook announces Gameroom!

After losing mobile gaming to iOS and Android, Facebook is making a big push into playing on PC with this week's developer launch of Gameroom, Windows desktop gaming platform!

 After months of difficult decisions, like name changes and constant testing, Facebook opened up for all developers and officially named it Gameroom. The app is openly available for users to download on Windows 7 and up.

Gameroom let users play web, ported mobile and native Gameroom games in a dedicated PC app free from the distractions of the Facebook News Feed.

However, Gameroom will have to compete against the Steam platform, which has well over 125 million active users, with millions actually playing at any given moment. Facebook will need to convince developers that Gameroom will share its social network’s massive reach and is therefore worth their while.

The social network is starting small: games can’t be any larger than 200MB, although it will consider hosting games up to 500MB.

Now that Gameroom is out in the open, with plenty of shooter games, strategy titles, puzzlers and casual games for people to try. The official consumer launch will come next.

In one corner, some users say Gameroom feels clumsy with no games that are really worth playing on it. But in the other corner, Steam might be the favourite of hardcore existing gamers, but Facebook is betting there’s a huge untapped swath of the mainstream ready to play, too!

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