News for Developers

2017 Games of the Year

What a fantastic year it has been for games across all platforms! This year Facebook celebrated the 1-year anniversary of Instant Games on Messenger, which has more than 70 games available to play on your own or against friends. On Gameroom, our PC desktop client, we've added more than 200 games, and there has been no shortage of excellent titles...

Gaming 2017

December 21, 2017

Migrating Games from Flash to Open Web Standards on Facebook

Today, Adobe announced its plans to stop updating and distributing Flash Player at the end of 2020. We're working with Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Unity to create a migration path for developers that use Flash to power their games on Facebook.Open Web Standards Advancements for Games As open web standards like WebGL and HTML5...

Gaming 2017

July 25, 2017

Facebook Build Target Now Available in Unity 5.6

With the official Unity 5.6 release, we have two new target platforms that are available in the Unity Editor: Facebook Gameroom and Facebook WebGL. In addition, we are rolling out more options for developers to scale and monetize their games with Web Hosting and Payments Lite. We're continuing to invest in tooling to make it easier to reach the...

Gaming 2017

March 31, 2017

GDC 2017

Facebook is once again excited to be at the world's largest gaming developer event, Game Developer Conference (GDC) 2017. We look forward to connecting with games developers over the course of the week through our various events and activations.Facebook gives people the power to discover, play, watch and share the games they love with the people...

Gaming 2017

February 27, 2017

2016 Games of the Year

Facebook gives people the power to discover, play and share their favorite games — anywhere. This year we've invested in more areas outside of our web games, and introduced new ways for people to engage with games across multiple experiences, such as:Instant Games: lightweight games that are instantly playable with friends on Messenger and News...

Gaming 2016

December 21, 2016

2015 Games

This year's Games of the Year awards honor the games, developers, publishers - and even a console - that made an impression on us and their players in 2015.Our mission at Facebook is to make the world more open and connected. Whether it’s joining friends for raids or claiming bragging rights, games represent a great way for people to experience and...

Business Tools Gaming

December 9, 2015

Preparing for the Unity Web Player and other NPAPI Plug-in Deprecations on Chrome

A couple of internet browsers recently announced changes that will impact Unity developers, and we wanted to share with you details on these changes as well as how Unity developers can prepare. Starting April 2015, Google announced that it will end general support for Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI) in its Chrome browser, which will make it...

Gaming 2015

January 30, 2015

Facebook Mobile Developer Conference 2013

Over the last year, Facebook has worked hard to improve our mobile offerings. We've re-written our iOS and Android apps to be faster, we've re-engineered our iOS and Android SDKs to make it easier to implement Facebook Login and we've launched dedicated developer centers for iOS, Android and Mobile Web....

Business Tools Gaming

March 12, 2013

Game Spotlight: War Commander

KIXEYE's War Commander is a massively multi-player strategy game on Facebook.com where players battle each other to expand their empires. War Commander's active player community and fun game mechanics have contributed to its position as one of the top rated apps in the App Center.Results...

Gaming 2012

July 24, 2012