Netflix started offering mobile games in early November. The company has also acquired a few studios, such as Night School (Oxenfree), Next Games (Stranger Things and The Walking Dead mobile adaptations), and Boss Fight Entertainment (Dungeon Boss). Speaking during the latest investors call, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said about the company’s gaming offering: According to COO Gregory Peters, though, Netflix is also looking to bolster its internal game development capacity. The executive quotes were sourced from Seeking Alpha. But you can sort of – there’s an early glimmer of where we’re trying to head with this with the announcement we just recently did with a launch of both a game and an animated series around the Exploding Kittens IP. I don’t know if you’re familiar with this card game, but it’s a super fun physical card game that we’re now going to bring to form in both an animated series and a game. And we’ll have some interplay between these 2 different modes for fans of that IP. But that’s sort of the – an initial step on a long road map we have around thinking about how do we make the film and series side and then the interactive games experience, sort of the interplay between those, magnify the value that our members are getting from both. So it’s like a 1 plus 1 equals 3 and then hopefully 4 and then 5 situation. So that’s sort of the multiyear vision that we’ve got behind it. And really to deliver on that, we think the internal development capacity is going to be key because we can obviously have those folks be very specifically focused on the opportunities that we see there.
