Last November, Facebook launched Instant Games, a new platform for gaming with friends inside the Messenger chat app. Today, the company is announcing a couple of notable new features for this gaming platform, including support for live streaming via Facebook Live and video chatting with fellow gamers.
The idea with Instant Games is to boost people’s time spent in Messenger by giving them something else to do besides just chat.
It also serves as Facebook’s newest attempt to return to dominance in social gaming. The company’s gaming platform years ago had earned a peak of a quarter-billion dollars per quarter on its 30 percent tax on in-game purchases, and it leveraged Facebook’s network effects to help games go viral.
But with the shift to mobile, Facebook’s position in gaming declined. These days, people spend more time gaming in native mobile apps built for iOS and Android devices.
When Instant Games first launched it offered 20 games across 30 markets, including titles like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Words With Friends Frenzy. Now that number has grown to over 70 games from more than 100 developers worldwide, the company says, including recently launched Tetris.
It will soon add other big names, like Angry Birds (built by CoolGames, who also built Tetris); Sonic Jump from SEGA; Disney Tsum Tsum, published by LINE; and a new game from Puzzle & Dragons maker, GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.
To mark its one-year anniversary, Facebook is also debuting a couple of new features for its Instant Games: live streaming and video chat.
Live streaming begins rolling out today.
The feature, powered by Facebook Live, lets Messenger users broadcast their gameplay to their Facebook Page or profile. To use live streaming, you just tap on the new camera icon at the top right of the screen while gaming, then add a short description to be shared alongside your post. To start recording, you press the “Start Live Video” button.
The live broadcast is then shared to your Page or profile. When it ends, friends and fans can watch the saved recording.
With the live streaming feature, Facebook is playing catch up rivals like Twitch, YouTube and Microsoft, all of which today offer their own tools and services for live streaming games. However, in Facebook’s case, the addition is more casual – it’s more about sharing with friends, not monetizing a community through subscriptions, game sales, or custom chat icons, as you’d find on Twitch or YouTube, for example. (At least, not yet).
Facebook says it will soon start testing a feature that lets users video chat while gaming, as well. The feature will initially debut next year in Zynga’s Words with Friends, before expanding to other titles.
According to the company, over 245 million people video chat every month on Messenger. That makes for a large potential audience for a video chatting feature, which adds interactive element to the gaming experience. The feature will also challenge other popular video chatting and hangout apps popular with teens and young adults, like Fam, the app for group video chat via iMessage, for example, or Microsoft’s Skype, among others.
As part of today’s news, Facebook shared a few stats from its gaming partners. You can see these below:
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A couple of founders, who chose not to be named, said Mercury\u2019s move might be linked to the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, which has seen the company\u2019s partner bank review its exposure to \u201chigh risk\u201d regions such as Africa. However, in an email sent to one of the founders whose startup was affected, Mercury tried to point out that its intention wasn\u2019t for the founder and his business to \u201cfeel singled out or held to a different standard.\u201d\n
It\u2019s hard to think that isn\u2019t the case, considering how startups from other regions don\u2019t seem to have experienced a similar problem, judging by activity linked to the situation on Twitter.\n
Mercury restricted a large number of African startups\u2019 bank accounts enmasse due to \u201cunusual activity\u201d. \n
Like that number of accounts. At the same time. \n
Wild.\n
— 10X Tech Bro (@OdunEweniyi) March 1, 2022\n
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A spokesperson responding to TechCrunch\u2019s request for comment said Mercury is aware that one of its backend banks has suspended the accounts of a number of the startup’s customers in Africa. And while the bank was acting in compliance with its internal procedures, the suspension has adversely affected some of its customers.\n
\u201cIt\u2019s top priority for us to work with the bank to resolve this matter as quickly as possible. We\u2019re reaching out to the customers impacted directly and apologize for the disruption this event has caused,\u201d it said in the remainder of the email to TechCrunch.\u00a0\n
Meanwhile, CEO Immad Akhund reached out via email to those affected:\n
Hi everyone,\n
I am the CEO of Mercury. Since many of you have emailed\/messaged me directly I thought it would be best if I just reached out directly.\n
We found out yesterday that our partner bank noticed unusual activity and asked us to lock and investigate a large set of accounts with linked activity. We are working through our due diligence on all those accounts and will be in touch with you individually with questions if we have any on your account or activity.\n
Since it’s a reasonably large set of accounts it’s taking us some time to work through all of them but it’s the highest priority for us internally and we have more than 10 people working on this.\n
We apologize for this sudden inconvenience and hope to put better practices in place to avoid this in the future. We will be in touch directly as we make progress and feel free to email me on this email if you have follow up questions.\n
Regards,\n
Immad\n”,”protected”:false},”excerpt”:{“rendered”:”
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After days of mounting pressure on tech companies to take further action against Russia in the wake of its invasion into Ukraine, Apple today confirmed it will remove the Kremlin-based media outlets Russia Today (RT News) and Sputnik News from the App Store in all markets outside Russia itself. The changes follow other actions taken against these two state-owned media operations both in the EU and globally.\u00a0 \u00a0\n
In recent days, Microsoft banned RT from its Windows app store and de-ranked both news sources in its search engine Bing. Google banned the RT News app in Ukraine at the request of the government in Kyiv. Roku banned RT from its streaming platform. Twitter flagged tweets from the media outlets with warnings and de-ranked their tweets. Facebook restricted access to the sites, making them unavailable in the EU, as did TikTok. And Google also removed them from YouTube.\n
Apple’s move to pull RT News and Sputnik News from its global App Stores follows a request from Ukrainian vice prime minister Mykhailo Fedorov, who wrote a letter to Apple CEO Tim Cook asking Apple to stop device sales in Russia and block access to the App Store entirely.
According to data provided to TechCrunch by app intelligence firms Sensor Tower and Apptopia, the two Russian media apps had millions of lifetime downloads and were live as of yesterday in global markets.\n
In the U.S. App Store, RT News had been ranked No. 42 in the News category as of February 28th, and Sputnik was ranked No. 85, Sensor Tower said. In addition, worldwide installs of RT News for iOS were up 241% in the last seven days compared to the seven days prior. And Sputnik installs on iOS were up 163% for the same period, the firm noted.\n
The two app store intelligence firms reported different estimates for the Russian apps’ footprints, however.\n
Sensor Tower reports that RT News had 5.7 million installs worldwide since its launch in May 2013, 1.7 million of which were on the App Store specifically. Sputnik had 2 million installs worldwide since its release in March 2015, and around 470,000 of those were on iOS.
Meanwhile, Apptopia’s data indicates the apps had a wider reach. It sees RT News with 10 million lifetime global installs, 2.5 million of which were on iOS. And Sputnik News had 3.85 million downloads, 960,000 of which were on iOS.\n
Neither firm has an exact number because they don’t work off direct access to App Store data — only Apple and the apps’ publishers know the true install figures. Instead, both generate estimates using statistical models.\n
The news sites weren’t the only impacted apps related to the Russian-Ukraine war. Apple also disabled both traffic and live incidents in Apple Maps in Ukraine as a safety and precautionary measure for Ukrainian citizens, it said, following a similar move by Google.\n”,”protected”:false},”excerpt”:{“rendered”:”
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The idea with Instant Games is to boost people’s time spent in Messenger by giving them something else to do besides just chat.\n
It also serves as Facebook’s newest attempt to return to dominance in social gaming. The company’s gaming platform years ago had earned a peak of a quarter-billion dollars per quarter on its 30 percent tax on in-game purchases, and it leveraged Facebook’s network effects to help games go viral.
But with the shift to mobile, Facebook’s position in gaming declined. These days, people spend more time gaming in native mobile apps built for iOS and Android devices.\n
When Instant Games first launched it offered 20 games across 30 markets, including titles like Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Words With Friends Frenzy. Now that number has grown to over 70 games from more than 100 developers worldwide, the company says, including recently launched Tetris.\n
It will soon add other big names, like Angry Birds (built by CoolGames, who also built Tetris);\u00a0Sonic Jump from SEGA;\u00a0Disney Tsum Tsum, published by LINE; and a new game from Puzzle & Dragons maker,\u00a0GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.\n
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Posted by Messenger on Wednesday, December 6, 2017\n\n\n
To mark its one-year anniversary, Facebook is also debuting a couple of new features for its Instant Games: live streaming and video chat.\n
Live streaming begins rolling out today.\n
The feature, powered by Facebook Live, lets Messenger users broadcast their gameplay to their Facebook Page or profile. To use live streaming, you just tap on the new camera icon at the top right of the screen while gaming, then add a short description to be shared alongside your post. To start recording, you press the “Start Live Video” button.\n
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The live broadcast is then shared to your Page or profile. When it ends, friends and fans can watch the saved recording.\n
With the live streaming feature, Facebook is playing catch up rivals like Twitch, YouTube and Microsoft, all of which today offer their own tools and services for live streaming games. However, in Facebook’s case, the addition is more casual – it’s more about sharing with friends, not monetizing a community through subscriptions, game sales, or custom chat icons, as you’d find on Twitch or YouTube, for example. (At least, not yet).\n
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Facebook says it will soon start testing a feature that lets users video chat while gaming, as well. The feature will initially debut next year in Zynga’s Words with Friends, before expanding to other titles.\n
According to the company, over 245 million people video chat every month on Messenger. That makes for a large potential audience for a video chatting feature, which adds interactive element to the gaming experience. The feature will also challenge other popular video chatting and hangout apps popular with teens and young adults, like Fam, the app for group video chat via iMessage, for example, or Microsoft’s Skype, among others.\n
As part of today’s news, Facebook shared a few stats from its gaming partners. You can see these below:\n
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