Netflix now comes with Android video games for paying subscribers

Enlarge / Only five Android-only games for now, but Ars Technica is famliar with more Netflix Games projects for smartphones in the pipeline. (credit: Netflix )

After a region-limited tease earlier this year, Netflix's gaming push officially begins this week as the company releases an update to its Android app. Starting tomorrow, all Netflix subscribers on Android will start seeing a row labeled either "N Games" or "Games On Mobile" inside the normal video-streaming app. The games are exclusively for smartphones and tablets.

And if you don't want to wait, you don't have to-the games are now live.

Today's announcement confirms what we already knew after a test version launched in late August in Poland. Netflix Games are downloaded to your Android device as opposed to being streamed from Netflix's cloud servers. (Subscription services like Nvidia GeForce Now, Xbox Game Streaming, and Amazon Luna remain poised to vie for the "Netflix of gaming" crown, as they stream computationally intense games from server farms to your favorite screen.)

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