Facebook Messenger App Tops Billon Downloads, Gets Its First Game

Android version of Facebook Messenger has topped one billion downloads, the company said Tuesday.

"Happy to make it to the very exclusive Android 1 billion+ downloads club," the head of the Messenger team David Marcus said in an online post.

Only Facebook and Google are the two companies whose apps have been downloaded more than one billion times on Android operating system.

The app also got its first official game, Doodle Draw: a simple diversion that tasks you with making friends guess a certain word based on your sketches. Playing is easy - just pick a word, attempt to draw something that resembles that word and send it to a friend to have them guess what it is.

The first game is available for both iOS and Android users. Users can also get it right from the More tab in the Messenger user interface.

Facebook Messenger is a chat application that has multitude of features like peer-to-peer payments and video-calling.