After the sale of Oculus to Adobe Facebook announced that it has acquired PlayGiga, a Madrid-based cloud gaming startup. The company made the announcement on CNBC today.
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PlayGiga was founded in 2013 and received Series-A funding from Adara Ventures as reported by Crunchbase. The company has been working with Telcos to create streaming game technology for 5G, which will help tech companies to reach more mobile gamers. The company has also developed a gaming-as-a-service platform, using Intel’s Visual Cloud platform, that will enable telcos and communication service providers to offer games streaming to its customers.
The acquisition of PlayGiga is another in a stream of acquisitions by the social media giant who already agreed to buy Beat Games, developer of popular virtual reality title Beat Saber.
Facebook has been quietly building its game streaming service in a bid to diversify revenue sources beyond online advertising. It claims the gaming service already boasts of 700 million monthly users globally.
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