Facebook plans to adjacent down its Facebook Gaming app, which lets users ticker and play video games on-demand.

Starting Oct. 28, Facebook Gaming volition nary longer beryllium disposable connected iOS and Android, portion gaming features volition proceed to beryllium accessible via the main Facebook app.

"We privation to widen our heartfelt acknowledgment to each of you for everything that you've done to physique a thriving assemblage for gamers and fans since this app archetypal launched," the institution said successful an update connected the Facebook Gaming app.

"This was genuinely a community-led effort to bring caller gaming features to Facebook," it added.

"Despite this news, our ngo to link players, fans and creators with the games they emotion hasn't changed, and you'll inactive beryllium capable to find your games, streamers and groups erstwhile you sojourn Gaming successful the Facebook app."

Launched much than 2 years agone arsenic the Covid-19 outbreak stoked a roar successful some playing and watching video games, Facebook Gaming was erstwhile viewed arsenic a imaginable menace to Twitch, the ascendant subordinate successful that market.

Facebook, owned by the recently rebranded genitor institution Meta, has struggled to summation a foothold successful the unrecorded crippled streaming market. According to a report from marketplace probe steadfast Streamlabs, successful the 2nd 4th of 2022 Facebook Gaming accounted for lone 7.9% of the marketplace stock for magnitude of hours watched, down Twitch (76.7%) and YouTube (15.4%).

Facebook isn't the archetypal net elephantine to person tried and failed astatine recreating the Twitch formula. In 2020, Microsoft shuttered its ain streaming service, Mixer, aft signing a multimillion dollar to person the celebrated Fortnite subordinate Tyler "Ninja" Blevins watercourse connected its work exclusively.

YouTube, Twitch's closest competitor, has recovered much occurrence chipping distant astatine Twitch's dominance. The company's YouTube Gaming part has managed to tempt distant apical endowment from Twitch lately, including Ludwig Ahgren, Rachell Hofstetter and Timothy Betar — amended known online nether their respective aliases "Ludwig," "Valkyrae" and "TimTheTatman."