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Night School Studio, the company's first gaming
studio purchase, is best known for its debut game, "Oxenfree", a
supernatural teen thriller with an eerie soundtrack.
The studio's games, which are available on Sony's PlayStation,
Microsoft's Xbox, Nintendo Switch and PCs, will be the first
non-mobile titles in the streaming giant's newly created video
game portfolio.
"Like our shows and films, these games will all be included as
part of your Netflix membership — all with no ads and no in-app
purchases," the company said. https://about.netflix.com/en/news/expanding-our-games-team-with-the-acquisition-of-night-school-studio
Netflix had mentioned its plans to enter gaming during its last
quarterly earnings, as newer players including Disney+ and HBO
Max have been rapidly gaining subscribers, intensifying
competition in the streaming landscape.
The company earlier in the day said it had introduced "Stranger
Things: 1984", "Stranger Things 3: The Game", "Card Blast",
"Teeter Up" and "Shooting Hoops" titles on Android to Netflix
members in Spain and Italy.
Poland, where the "Stranger Things" titles are already
available, will get the other three titles.
"We view gaming as another new content category for us, similar
to our expansion into original films, animation and unscripted
TV," the company said in its shareholder letter.
"We think the time is right to learn more about how our members
value games."
(Reporting by Eva Mathews, Subrat Patnaik and Rithika Krishna in
Bengaluru; Editing by Vinay Dwivedi)
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