Facebook improved the game platform to respond to the challenge from Google +

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(Free-Press-Release.com) August 13, 2011 -- A few hours after Google + officially launched the game platform on August 12, Facebook announced that they will make some improvement and add a series of new features for its game platform. Analysts said this can be seen as Facebook’s strategic counterattack on Google +.

According to reports, Facebook launched the first feature called "Game Ticker”, that will replace the original chat plate on the right side of the page with dynamic message list of friends who are playing games. Game Ticker can show the names, honor and scoring information of the games that your friends are playing. It can transmit the user to the game and immediately start the game with friends by clicking the message. With the same function of News Feed, the users can control the message type appearing in Game Ticker.

In addition, Facebook provides a extended mode of screen for the games. Some players said that the mode has great help for operation and fighting games

Finally, Facebook now supports favorites feature on games and application, so that the players can more quickly find favorite games, and directly access to these games from News Feed.

According to reports, Google + launched the game platform on Thursday, it provides 16 kinds of games, including "angry birds" and "Zynga Poker.

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