{"id":5297,"date":"2016-11-03T13:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2016-11-03T13:08:14","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T03:08:14","slug":"facebook-announces-steam-competitor-gameroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/facebook-announces-steam-competitor-gameroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook announces Steam competitor: Gameroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/facebook-gameroom.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After losing mobile gaming to iOS and Android, Facebook is making a big push into playing on PC with today\u2019s developer launch of its Gameroom Windows desktop gaming platform. After months of name changes, beta tests and dev solicitation, Facebook opened up the beta build for all developers and officially named it Gameroom. The app\u00a0is openly available for users to download\u00a0on Windows 7 and up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope.<\/p>\n<p>But seriously. Oculus&#8217; portal will undoubtably end up in here and that&#8217;s likely the main way it will get traction. I could be wrong but I don&#8217;t see any serious gamers being on board with this. Are you?<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"source-link\"><span class=\"source-link\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2016\/11\/01\/facebook-gameroom\/\">Facebook officially announces Gameroom, its PC Steam competitor | TechCrunch<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing mobile gaming to iOS and Android, Facebook is making a big push into playing on PC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}