Netflix will start publishing video games, has hired former EA exec

Enlarge / Netflix as a gaming publisher: We know it's happening. But we have many, many questions as to what shape its service will take. (credit: Getty Images | Aurich Lawson)

Netflix's growing fascination with video games will soon explode in the form of a full-fledged game-publishing arm.

While Netflix has yet to post its own announcement about the initiative, the streaming-video provider has confirmed to Ars Technica that it has hired a former EA and Oculus exec to lead a Netflix game-publishing team.

The newly hired exec is Mike Verdu, who most recently worked in developer relations with Facebook's Oculus VR team (his public profile still says that's his current job). He has worked in game development and publishing since the early '90s, and his first studio, Legend Entertainment, was eventually acquired by GT Interactive.

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