Netflix Launches Test of Games on TVs, PCs and Macs
variety.comTodd Spangler NY Digital Editor Netflix, two years after initially launching a selection of games on mobile devices, is kicking the tires on letting customers play titles on computers and internet TVs.
The company announced that is is rolling out a limited beta test to a “small number” of members in Canada and the U.K. on select TVs starting Monday (Aug.
14), and on PCs and Macs through netflix.com on supported browsers in the next few weeks. To play games on TV, Netflix is using customers’ mobile phones — a “controller that we already have in our hands most of the day,” Netflix VP of games Mike Verdu wrote in a blog post announcing the test.
On PCs and Macs, members can play games on web browsers using a keyboard and mouse. Two games will be part of Netflix’s initial cloud-gaming test: “Oxenfree” from Night School Studio, a Netflix-owned game studio, and Molehew’s “Mining Adventure” gem-mining arcade game.
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