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Netflix hires former EA exec to push into video games

15 Jul 2021
Steve Wright

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Netflix is looking to push into video games and has hired former EA executive Mike Verdu to help bolster efforts, Bloomberg today reports.

Verdu will serve as vice president of game development and will report to Netflix Chief Operating Officer Greg Peters.

Bloomberg’s report continues to state that Netflix plans to release games onto its service as early as next year, 2022.

Mike Verdu was senior vice president of EA Mobile, working on titles including Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, SimCity BuildIt, Plants vs Zombies and more. Since EA, he’s acted as vice president of AR and VR content at Facebook.

We’ll have more on Netflix’s push into video games as news is made available.

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Steve's the owner and Editor-in-Chief of Stevivor.com, the country’s leading independent video games outlet. Steve arrived in Australia back in 2001 on what was meant to be a three-month working holiday before deciding to emigrate and, eventually, becoming a citizen.

Stevivor is a combination of ‘Steve’ and ‘Survivor’, which made more sense back in 2001 when Jeff Probst was up in Queensland. The site started as Steve’s travel blog before transitioning over into video games.

Aside from video games, Steve has interests in hockey and Star Trek, playing the former and helping to cover video games about the latter on TrekMovie.com. By day, Steve works as the communications manager of the peak body representing Victorians as they age.