Netflix Builds its Game Library, Once Again

16 games in the catalog and counting...

Netflix adds more games

<p>It’s hard to find a company that does just one thing&comma; these days&period; However&comma; the gaming industry seems to attract more than its fair share of businesses hoping to expand their portfolios and bank balances&period; It is&comma; after all&comma; one of the most lucrative sectors on the planet&comma; with an upper echelon of titles earning billions for an already well-off batch of developers&period; GTA V alone recently topped &dollar;6 billion dollars USD in earnings to date&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Getting into a Lucrative Business<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>These almighty cash cows are a rarity&comma; though&period; Most creators find themselves somewhere between cents and millions &&num;8211&semi; yet there’s no denying the perennial appeal of putting out a platformer or shooter to a captive audience&period; One of the more unexpected companies to get involved with gaming recently is&comma; of course&comma; Netflix&period; The streaming service now has a catalog of 16 titles on the Play Store&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe title&equals;"YouTube video player" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;5RT9ytFQyX4" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The wording of a recent headline pushed out by the company does suggest that Netflix is eying a <span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0000ff&semi;"><u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;about&period;netflix&period;com&sol;en&sol;news&sol;all-the-new-mobile-games-coming-to-netflix-in-march">monthly release cycle<&sol;a><&sol;u><&sol;span> for its games&comma; which vary in terms of their genre and visual design&period; For March&comma; Netflix will add a trio of new apps&comma; namely&comma; This Is a True Story&comma; Shatter Remastered&comma; and Into the Dead 2&colon; Unleashed&period; Unfortunately&comma; hardly anything in Netflix’s repertoire is actually new&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>For some reason better left to future sages&comma; Netflix keeps picking up games that already exist somewhere else or have been previously canceled&period; A good example is Asphalt Xtreme&comma; which ceased to exist in 2017&comma; only to reappear four years later as an exclusive Netflix title&period; This bargain-basement&comma; scattergun approach to providing interactive content is a bit unusual&comma; yet there are still some gems in the basket&period; Interestingly&comma; this reminds me of how <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;unpei1&period;org&sol;">슬롯 사이트<&sol;a> operate&comma; constantly evolving and rebranding to stay relevant in a competitive market&period; Whether it&&num;8217&semi;s through new bonuses&comma; fresh game selections&comma; or innovative payment methods&comma; these sites strive to keep players engaged and coming back for more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"western">This is a True Story<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>Into the Dead 2&colon; Unleashed&comma; a zombie FPS that’s <span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0000ff&semi;"><u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;play&period;google&period;com&sol;store&sol;apps&sol;details&quest;id&equals;com&period;pikpok&period;dr2&period;play&amp&semi;hl&equals;en&lowbar;GB&amp&semi;gl&equals;US">already well-established<&sol;a><&sol;u><&sol;span> on the Play Store&comma; is arguably Netflix’s best shot at wooing gamers&period; While there’s a feeling that the company has already missed the boat on zombie games&comma; the flesh-eating baddies never really went anywhere&period; Evil Dead&colon; The Game came out earlier this year&comma; as did Dying Light 2&period; The genre continues to thrive in some unexpected places&comma; too&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><iframe title&equals;"YouTube video player" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;embed&sol;4SxSFPYvSS0" width&equals;"560" height&equals;"315" frameborder&equals;"0" allowfullscreen&equals;"allowfullscreen"><&sol;iframe><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Both Resident Evil 1 and 2 have related board games while casino game developers such as Microgaming regularly push out zombie-themed slots&period; Zombie Hoard&comma; which is playable at <span style&equals;"color&colon; &num;0000ff&semi;"><u><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;superseven&period;com&sol;ca&sol;online-casino&sol;slots">www&period;superseven&period;com<&sol;a><&sol;u><&sol;span>&comma; is a good example&period; The game combines classic slot play with cartoon graphics to create a rather humorous take on the world’s favorite brand of shambling corpses&period; The online casino offers another two zombie-themed slot machines&colon; Zombie Queen and Zombie Circus&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Elsewhere in Netflix’s March release bundle&comma; the app &&num;8220&semi;This is a True Story&&num;8221&semi; tells the somber tale of an African woman’s daily quest to find water&period; It’s part game&comma; part fundraiser&comma; as it seeks to get players involved with Charity&colon; Water&comma; an organization that has sourced &dollar;370 million USD in donations for developing countries since 2019&period; This altruistic approach to gaming isn’t rare &&num;8211&semi; look at This War of Mine &&num;8211&semi; but it does give some purpose to Netflix’s aspirations in the gaming industry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h2>Final Thoughts<&sol;h2>&NewLine;<p>There&&num;8217&semi;s no denying it&comma; though &&num;8211&semi; these are strange times in the TV streaming space&period; Other services have tried and failed to do something similar to this in the past&period; Also&comma; with their recent issues with losing subscribers &lpar;i&period;e&period; price hikes&comma; ad-based tier&rpar;&comma; maybe gaming is the next frontier for the once streaming giant&quest; Now that they find themselves in a crowded field of streaming competitors&period; Time will tell if Netflix&&num;8217&semi;s gamble on gaming will pay off&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll all be watching&period; Or&comma; will we&quest;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Will you be playing games on Netflix&quest; If so&comma; what games would you like to see next on the platform&quest; Let us know in the comment section below&period; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;

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