Facebook is planning to launch an exclusive ‘Activity Feed’ for Games

by Swati on January 31st, 2012 1

To allow users to discover new games, and get regular updates on friends’ game activity, Facebook is planning to launch a new games-only activity feed.

“Today we are announcing new ways to drive greater discovery and engagement with games on Facebook, including games stories in News Feed and a games Timeline unit. We are also testing the addition of a prominent link to app requests on the homepage, a games-only activity feed and changes to the live ticker,” the social networking giant wrote on its developer blog today.

Facebook users can already see games stories in the mobile feed. Now, the social networking giant is bringing this feature to Facebook.com. Both gamers and non-gamers would be able to see stories of the games that their friends are playing. There is a new games activity feed that appears as a sub-menu option called “Friend Activity under the apps and games dashboard. This creates a one-stop destination for games related activity on Facebook.

Users have an option to allow their games activity appear on timeline.

“We recently launched a new Timeline unit that deeply integrates a user’s top game activity over a given period of time into their timeline. This unit highlights the games users play the most, as well as top scores and achievements, allowing for quick re-engagement for the user and discovery among friends,” Facebook writes.

To increase the visibility of outstanding requests and drive more traffic to games and apps, Facebook is testing a new link to outstanding games and apps requests on the upper right corner of the home page. The current version of the ticker on games and apps pages might be removed to improve and simplify the overall games experience.

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