We were talking to you barely an hour ago about Netflix’s recent acquisitions of development studios in the brief we devoted to the postponement of Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals and now the video on demand giant has just announced the establishment of a new in-house developer in the city of Helsinki. If it does not yet have a name, this new studio will be directed by Marko Lastikka, former Zynga also spent at Electronic Arts.
The company – in the person of Amir Rahimi, vice-president of its Game Studios department – has also expressed itself on its blog to reaffirm its ambitions: “It’s another step in our vision to build a world-class games studio that will bring a variety of original, entertaining and deeply engaging games – with no ads and no in-app purchases – to our hundreds of millions of members across the world” is it thus announced, before continuing: “We’re still in the early stages, and we have a lot of work to do to deliver a great gaming experience on Netflix. Creating a game can take years, so I’m proud to see how steadily we’re building the foundations of our game studios in our first year, and I look forward to sharing what we’ll produce in the years to come. come“.
Netflix’s ambition is to be able to offer around fifty mobile games to its subscribers by the end of the year. To this end, the company has already acquired four developers and recently announced several exclusives from third-party studios during a video segment broadcast as part of the latest Summer Game Fest.
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