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☆ The 'Grand Theft Auto 6' halo effect is causing decades-old GTA games to dominate on Netflix
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-10 | by ( Kenneth Niemeyer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

AdvertisementPeople are so excited for "Grand Theft Auto 6" that decades-old GTA games are shooting to the top of Netflix's gaming platform. The "Grand Theft Auto Trilogy" — released in 2021 — combines three classic titles from the series: "Grand Theft Auto III," "Grand Theft Auto: Vice City," and "Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas." After Netflix Games added the "Grand Theft Auto Trilogy" to its platform, it quickly became their top games, according to Netflix. Zelnik said the announcement of "Grand Theft Auto 6" in December has had a "halo effect across the entire franchise." Take Two CFO Lainie Goldstein said sales of "Grand Theft Auto V" also "exceeded expectations" last quarter.

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☆ Netflix to make its games playable on more devices
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-14 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Mike Blake/File PhotoAug 14 (Reuters) - Netflix (NFLX.O) will test games on select TVs and computers in a first step to make them playable on more devices, the company's vice president of Games Mike Verdu wrote in a blog post on Monday. The streaming platform had begun its push into the gaming experience by launching Netflix games on mobiles in November 2021. "Oxenfree" from Night School Studio, a Netflix Game Studio, and "Molehew's Mining Adventure", a gem-mining arcade game, will be part of the initial testing. "By making games available on more devices, we hope to make games even easier to play for our members around the world," Verdu said. Netflix said games on TV will operate on select devices from initial partners Amazon Fire TV Streaming Media Players, Chromecast with Google TV and Roku devices, among others.

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☆ All the hidden Netflix, Prime, Apple and Spotify benefits you didn't know you get as a subscriber
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-15 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Netflix, Apple, and more have perks that appeal to gamers, and those wanting to save money. There's no need to own a Kindle device as there's an app available to mobile devices and computers. There's also free music on offer with Prime – 100 million songs in fact – as well as podcasts, all ad-free, but yes, there is a catch of sorts. Spotify offers 300,000 audiobook titles InsiderApple One bundleIf you're paying $10.99 a month for Apple Music, you might want to consider upgrading to the Apple One bundle for about $6 more. Doing so will give you AppleTV+, the Arcade gaming service, Apple News+, Apple Fitness+ and 50 gigabytes of iCloud storage, as well as your tunes.

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☆ Netflix is doubling down on gaming, with dozens of new hires and a dedicated studio, as it chases younger audiences and battles to turn back subscriber losses
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-17 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix is making dozens of hires and opening a studio in Finland to bolster its mobile games push. Netflix is hirings dozens of experts to bolster its year-old push into gaming. A recent Forrester survey of Netflix subscribers, reviewed exclusively by Insider, showed only 5% had played one of Netflix's mobile games in the previous month, while 4% said its mobile games keep them subscribing, and 54% said "I could care less" about games on Netflix. However, the streamer in September announced it was opening a games studio in Helsinki, Finland. But there's a lot of competition in mobile gaming and for consumers' attention, Proulx added, and it's an open question "how hard they should press with their strategy."

☆ Netflix is hiring a slew of engineers and developers to bolster its gaming push as subscriptions fall off
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Lucia Moses | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Netflix is making a slew of hires and opening a studio in Finland to bolster its mobile games push. Netflix is hirings dozens of experts to bolster its year-old push into gaming. However, on Monday, the streamer announced it was opening a games studio in Helsinki, Finland. Another listing, for a senior games engineer, shares that "Netflix is building a new internal game studio to incubate and build a new class of hilarious, social party video games." But there's a lot of competition in mobile gaming and for consumers' attention, Proulx added, and it's an open question "how hard they should press with their strategy."

☆ Netflix is opening a video game studio in Finland as part of latest pivot into gaming
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Catherine Thorbecke | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

The streaming giant is building its first in-house video game studio in Helsinki, Finland, as it expands its empire over mobile games, Netflix announced Monday. The new gaming studio will be helmed by Marko Lastikka, a veteran from gaming giants Zynga and Electronic Arts, Netflix VP of Game Studios Amir Rahimi said in a blog post. Rahimi said the new studio, however, will be built “from scratch.”Monday’s announcement brings Netflix’s total number of gaming studios up to four. Netflix’s Rahimi said each studio has “different strengths and focus areas” and together will develop a diverse suite of games for Netflix users. Netflix Games have been live for a little over a year now.

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