But Verdu is a serious game leader whose career has focused on building entire portfolios of games for companies.
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And Black Mirror: Bandersnatch is a game-like experience, as it’s an interactive TV show in which the audience makes choices that influence the end of the story. Netflix has dabbled in games before with titles like a Stranger Things game and The 3% Challenge. He also served as senior vice president of EA mobile, president of studios and chief creative officer at Kabam, CEO of TapZen, and chief creative officer and co-president of games at Zynga.
Verdu was Facebook’s vice president in charge of augmented reality and virtual reality content. Verdu reports to chief operating officer Greg Peters. The move shows the company is serious about expanding into games, which Netflix CEO Reed Hastings once described (pointing out Fortnite in particular) as Netflix’s biggest competition for the time of its customers. The company has been hiring game people for a while, and Verdu was the biggest name yet to come on board at the streaming service for movies and TV shows. Verdu said the company will expand its game efforts through a combination of working with established developers as well as making new hires.īack in July, Netflix said it hired former Oculus and EA game development leader Verdu to head its fledgling game efforts. The deal doesn’t mean that Netflix is going to be in a mad rush to make more acquisitions.
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