An nameless reader quotes a report from the Monetary Occasions: Netflix has teamed up with Ubisoft (Warning: supply could also be paywalled; different supply), one in all Europe’s largest online game firms, because the streaming large seeks to bolster its fledgling gaming enterprise. The California-based streaming service will launch three new cell video games subsequent 12 months primarily based on Ubisoft’s video games, together with its most profitable title Murderer’s Creed. The transfer comes as Netflix makes an attempt to speed up progress of its new gaming arm amid a slowdown within the firm’s streaming enterprise. The streaming group has misplaced greater than half of its market worth since April when it revealed its decade-long subscriber progress had ended.
The partnership will entail the French gaming group growing the cell video games for Netflix. This may also embrace a recreation primarily based on Ubisoft’s Mighty Quest, a castle-building and monster-looting recreation, and the historic puzzle journey recreation known as Valiant Hearts. The video games might be made obtainable solely to Netflix subscribers, with no adverts or in-app purchases, permitting Ubisoft to faucet into new audiences and experiment with recent codecs for current titles. No particulars of the deal worth have been introduced. “Netflix has launched 28 video games and bought three gaming studios, together with Night time Faculty Studio, which makes the supernatural journey recreation Oxenfree, and Texas-based Boss Battle Leisure,” notes the report. “The streaming large plans to have a complete of fifty video games on its roster by the top of the 12 months.”