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Facebook announced Monday that several free video games would now be accessible remotely and without any download from its platform, thus following in the footsteps of other American digital pillars.
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Unlike Google or Amazon, the social network giant is not launching a full-fledged service, but offers its users the possibility of accessing certain titles thanks to the “cloud” (remote computing) from their Facebook mobile application. or their Internet browser.
“No hardware and no controller are necessary: your hands are the controllers, because we are starting with mobile games developed specifically for smartphones,” said Jason Rubin, vice president of the games department at Facebook, in a blog post.
Five titles are available at the beta launch of “Facebook Gaming” in the United States: a racing game (Asphal 9: Legends), a golf game (PGA TOUR Golf Shootout), a role-playing game (Mobile Legends: Adventure ) and two card games (Solitaire: Arthur’s Tale and WWE SuperCard).
These games are free, but contain in-app purchase options as well as advertisements.
They are accessible on the Internet and on devices equipped with Google’s Android mobile operating system, but are not currently available on iOS, Apple’s operating system.
The Apple brand is itself very invested in the mobile games sector through its application store, the App Store, through which it receives commissions paid by publishers.
An equivalent system exists within the Google Play Store, but the group allows users of Android devices to use other virtual stores.
The big American names in technology are showing a growing interest in dematerialized video games, as illustrated in recent months by the launches of the Stadia platforms by Google and Luna by Amazon.
For its part, Microsoft recently added the xCloud service for subscribers to its online game library.
“Over 380 million people play games on Facebook every month and people will play remotely accessible games alongside those who play instant games,” writes Rubin.
