Standard streaming platform Netflix has introduced its plans to deepen the corporate’s curiosity in increasing its video video games sector with the launch of a brand new studio.
In a latest press launch, the streaming platform revealed that it had started constructing a brand new online game studio within the Finnish metropolis of Helsinki. Netflix additional introduced that former Zynga and EA government Marko Lastikka might be heading the brand new arm of the corporate.
Netfilx defined its choice to construct a studio from scratch in Helsinki, Finland, as it will likely be in shut proximity to Subsequent Video games, an organization which was acquired by the streaming platform earlier this 12 months.
Together with the brand new studio and Subsequent Video games, Netflix additionally owns Night time College Studio and Boss Combat Leisure, which confirms the corporate’s curiosity in diversifying its portfolio from TV and movies to video video games as properly.
In a press release from Netflix’s VP of Sport Studios, Amir Rahimi, shared the corporate’s plans to create extra experiences for followers to take pleasure in on the platform with various video games from its studios.
Netflix has been engaged on video video games for fairly a while, with a lot of the titles being based mostly round its TV and movie franchises. Nonetheless, earlier this week, the corporate showcased its intentions to maneuver exterior its realm with the launch of the Netflix Version of Oxenfree, which was introduced at TUDUM 2022.
