Netflix currently has over 80 games in development, with plans to release a game a month to its subscribers from this month onwards in its Netflix Stories section.
In its latest earnings call, Netflix’s co-CEO, president and director Gregory K Peters discussed the company’s plans for gaming and how it will achieve growth.
Where the company is moving quickest is with interactive narrative games, which Peters describes as “easier to build”. These are placed in the Netflix Stories narrative hub and it’s here the company will be launching a new game each month based on popular series like Emily in Paris and Selling Sunset.
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Read moreMore than a decade on from the release of BioShock Infinite, the team working on a successor is now “ramping up”.
That’s according to senior cinematic designer Jeff Spoonhower, who took to LinkedIn to highlight more than 30 positions now open at 2K Cloud Chamber, the Montreal-based studio tasked with crafting a fresh entry in the beloved BioShock series.
Work to continue the BioShock series has been ongoing over the past 10 years, though has stopped and started at a selection of development studios.
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Read more Motion Twin’s Windblown finally has an early access release date, and it’s soon, too: 24th October, 2024.
Announcing the news on its social media accounts, the Dead Cell developer also confirmed that from 14th October, you can try before you buy courtesy of a single-player demo that’s debuting as part of this year’s Steam Next Fest.
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Read moreNintendo and The Pokémon Company’s shock move to launch legal action against Palworld looks to hinge on a patent relating to how players throw Pokéballs.
Yesterday, Nintendo confirmed it was suing Palworld maker Pocketpair for the infringement of “multiple” patents – but did not detail which ones. Later in the day, Pocketpair itself said it was still to hear which patents it stood accused of breaching.
Now, fingers are being pointed at a recent Pokéball-throwing patent jointly filed this summer by Nintendo and The Pokémon Company. Indeed, the companies requested this patent was given an accelerated review process – perhaps in preparation for this legal action now.
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Read more Final Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida has asked fans to not mod “anything offensive or inappropriate” into the PC release of the game.
Speaking to PC Gamer, Final Fantasy 16 director Hiroshi Takai was asked about goofy mods he’d like to see in the game, but Yoshida stepped in to answer instead. And it’s clear he’s protective of the team’s work.
“If we said ‘It’d be great if someone made xyz’, it might come across as a request, so I’ll avoid mentioning any specifics here!” he said. “The only thing I will say is that we definitely don’t want to say anything offensive or inappropriate, so please don’t make or install anything like that.”
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Read more Black Myth: Wukong has had a hand in breaking yet another new record.
Over the weekend, Steam surpassed 37 million concurrent users for the first time in its history. As you can see in the image below, on Sunday 25th August, Valve welcomed a whopping 37,240,223 of us onto its platform.
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Read more We all know The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was (and still is) called The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, but once upon a time Nintendo was thinking of a slightly different name for its Breath of the Wild follow-up.
Please be aware of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom spoilers below.
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