Social media giant Facebook Inc has said that it is building a new standalone gaming service for desktops, but so far, that is basically everything the company has revealed about the new platform. One of the few bits of information Facebook did share about its new service is that it will be partnering with Unity Technologies, whose Unity 3D game engine is the most widely used full-feature game creation tool on the market, with a market share of around 45 percent.

In a statement, Unity said that it will be helping Facebook develop the new platform, and the company said that it will work to “give Unity developers new ways to reach and engage Facebook’s audience of 650M+ gamers.”

“Unity and Facebook are collaborating to build new functionality into Unity that streamlines the process for exporting and publishing games onto Facebook,” Unity said in its statement. “This will allow Unity developers to quickly deliver their games to the millions of people who enjoy playing Facebook-connected games every month, and the chance to participate in an ecosystem that paid out over $2.5 billion to just web-game developers in 2015 alone.”

There are already a number of desktop game services out there, including Electronic Arts’ Origin and Ubisoft’s UPlay, but the current king of PC gaming is without a doubt Valve Corp’s Steam client, which as of a little over a year ago, boasted somewhere in the neighborhood of over 125 million active users. Steam’s own 48-hour statistics currently show a peak concurrent user base of 10.4 million people, and at the moment, Steam users are downloading games at a rate of 1.9 terabytes per second. Of course, Steam’s size is a drop in the bucket compared to Facebook’s 1.13 billion daily users.

While Facebook has yet to reveal any concrete details about what sort of games will be available on its platform or even what sort of business model it will use, there is a strong likelihood that the service will tie in closely with the Oculus Rift virtual reality headset, which is produced by the Facebook-owned Oculus VR. Coincidentally, Oculus Rift’s biggest competitor is HTC Vive, a virtual reality device that was co-developed by Steam-owner Valve Corp.

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