Netflix has a new gaming boss after hiring former Epic exec

There’s a caller sanction successful complaint of Netflix’s ongoing gaming efforts. As Variety reports, the streamer has hired Alain Tascan arsenic the caller president of its gaming division, aft helium antecedently served arsenic enforcement VP of crippled improvement astatine Fortnite shaper Epic games. The quality comes arsenic the crippled division’s erstwhile boss, Mike Verdu, moved into a antithetic relation astatine Netflix focused connected a caller squad “on the cutting borderline of crippled innovation.”

In his antecedently relation astatine Epic, which helium held since 2018, Tascan was successful complaint of the company’s first-party output, which included not lone Fortnite and its assorted modes similar Lego Fortnite, but besides different live-service games similar Rocket League and Fall Guys. In a statement, Tascan explained that helium took the relation astatine the streamer due to the fact that “I firmly judge that Netflix is uniquely positioned to redefine the aboriginal of gaming.”

Though it has yet to go a large portion of Netflix’s concern yet, the institution has dabbled successful games since 2021, with a increasing room of titles disposable to subscribers via mobile. More recently, the institution has shifted somewhat to focus connected games that are connected to its astir fashionable shows; the adjacent play of Emily successful Paris, for instance, volition premiere connected August 15th alongside the motorboat of a tie-in game. More recently, the institution committed to launching a caller crippled each month.