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Netflix on Wednesday night unveiled its first games for the TV, as the Los Gatos streamer aims to gain a bigger share of the video game market. <\/p>\n
The five games \u2014 which include versions of Boggle and Pictionary \u2014 are meant to be played on a TV in the same room with family and friends using their phones as controllers and are included in a regular Netflix subscription.<\/p>\n
Other titles include LEGO Party!, Tetris Time Warp and social deduction game Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends. The company plans to roll out the games in the U.S. before the holidays. <\/p>\n
Netflix co-Chief Executive Greg Peters announced the TV games slate at a Bloomberg Screentime media conference in Hollywood on Wednesday, citing the burgeoning market for gaming.<\/p>\n
Consumers spend $140 billion a year on gaming, an amount that excludes Russian and Chinese markets and advertising revenue.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe think it\u2019s a real opportunity for us to try and earn a percentage of that over a period of time,\u201d Peters said at the event. <\/p>\n
Netflix announced its plans to expand into mobile gaming<\/a> in 2021, acquiring several game developers<\/a>, including Glendale-based Night School Studios over time. The company started out in mobile games and has been testing games for the TV since 2023. <\/p>\n This would be the first significant slate of TV games for Netflix, meant to be played from one to eight players in the same room on their TV.<\/p>\n In an effort to give subscribers more reasons to keep their subscriptions, Netflix has licensed and built mobile games, some of them based on such popular franchises as \u201cToo Hot to Handle<\/a>\u201d and \u201cSquid Game<\/a>.\u201d <\/p>\n But so far the efforts have been mixed.<\/p>\n Last year, the gaming division was hit with layoffs<\/a>. And earlier this year, Mike Verdu, vice president of GenAI for games who was tasked with building the division, left the company<\/a>. <\/p>\n At the Bloomberg event on Wednesday night, Peters gave the company a B- on its gaming efforts.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of what we\u2019ve been doing is really just building the foundation,\u201d Peters said. \u201cWe\u2019ve been doing a lot of real hard plumbing work, but now we\u2019re getting to a really interesting place where we\u2019re going to deliver more of what our vision of what we should be doing in the space is.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Netflix on Wednesday night unveiled its first games for the TV, as the Los Gatos streamer aims to gain a bigger share of the video game market. The five games \u2014 which include versions of Boggle and Pictionary \u2014 are meant to be played on a TV in the same room with family and friends […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2080237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2080236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Boggle-and-Pictionary-games-coming-to-Netflix.com2F7e2F532F5216f07e426a80ea34cfb760.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2080238,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080236\/revisions\/2080238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2080237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}