Facebook Instant Games puts games right smack in the middle of News Feed, Messenger<article>
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Facebook’s new Instant Games platform is as much about reorienting its social empire back toward gaming as much as it is cutting out the mobile apps that have threatened its hegemony on phones and tablets.</p><p>
The new Instant Games platform, launched Tuesday, is an HTML5-based gaming platform that eliminates the need to download the recent
Facebook Gameroom app. Seventeen games—including arcade classics as
Space Invaders and
Pac-Man as well as more modern games like
EverWing and
Words with Friends: Frenzy — can now be launched directly from your News Feed, rather than forcing users to dig them out from the left-hand sidebar. More importantly, in-app games can now be launched within both the Facebook mobile apps as well as Messenger—again, without the need to launch separate apps.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3145467/software-games/facebook-instant-games-puts-games-right-smack-in-the-middle-of-news-feed-messenger.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>
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Facebook Instant Games puts games right smack in the middle of News Feed, Messenger
