Netflix Launches Test of Games on TVs, PCs and Macs
14.08.2023 - 17:29
/ variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Netflix, two years after initially launching a selection of games on mobile devices, is kicking the tires on letting customers play titles on computers and internet TVs. The company announced that is is rolling out a limited beta test to a “small number” of members in Canada and the U.K. on select TVs starting Monday (Aug.
14), and on PCs and Macs through netflix.com on supported browsers in the next few weeks. To play games on TV, Netflix is using customers’ mobile phones — a “controller that we already have in our hands most of the day,” Netflix VP of games Mike Verdu wrote in a blog post announcing the test. On PCs and Macs, members can play games on web browsers using a keyboard and mouse.
Two games will be part of Netflix’s initial cloud-gaming test: “Oxenfree” from Night School Studio, a Netflix-owned game studio, and Molehew’s “Mining Adventure” gem-mining arcade game. Last fall, Verdu had announced that the company was “seriously exploring” cloud gaming to be able to extend its catalog of games to be playable on TVs and computers. The “limited beta is meant to test our game streaming technology and controller, and to improve the member experience over time,” Verdu wrote in Monday’s blog post.
Games on TV will operate on select devices from initial partners including Amazon Fire TV streaming media players, Chromecast with Google TV, LG TVs, Nvidia Shield TV, Roku devices and TVs, Samsung Smart TVs and Walmart Onn TV. Additional devices will be added “on an ongoing basis,” Verdu said. “By making games available on more devices, we hope to make games even easier to play for our members around the world,” Verdu wrote.
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