Netflix is making a radical change for the film and series platform, the American company finally making the decision to offer us much more through it, and the recent rumors are starting to come true. More precisely, those at Netflix decided that it was time to make games to offer to subscribers all over the world in order to keep them active for more time on its platform, so they hired Mike Verdu for to handle the project.
Netflix has recently been around some extremely important rumors about the company's decision to go down this road for customers around the world, and now we also find out who will take care of everything. Mike Verdu worked until recently at Facebook and tried to bring new games for Oculus, a virtual reality headset, but from now on he will take care of bringing games to Netflix that will keep people busy even when they are not watching movies or serials.
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Netflix has officially confirmed the hiring of Mike Verdu, but hasn't given exact details about what he wants to do, although people inside the company reveal exactly which direction it's going. For now, those at Netflix do not intend to ask for any money for the games they will offer, but everything could change depending on the investments they will have to make to bring games to the platform for all subscribers.
“Netflix will be building out its gaming team in the coming months. The company has already started advertising game development positions on its website. Mike Verdu is set to join Netflix as vice president of game development, reporting to COO Greg Peters. The idea is to offer video games on the Netflix streaming platform in the next year. Gaming will appear alongside current fare as a new genre of programming – similar to what Netflix has done with documentaries or stand-up shows.”
Netflix hired Verdu also based on his experience at EA Games, where he worked on games such as Sims, Plants vs Zombies, or Star Wars, but also based on his experience at Zynga. In the next period, those from Netflix will start developing the platform for games, and from here on they will try to convince developers to create titles for the new platform, but it remains to be seen what they will manage to do and how much they will pay for this whole process.
Netflix is the largest platform for streaming video on demand at the moment, and the decision to create games to offer to customers on such a platform is perhaps one of the best so far.
