Video games coming to Netflix? Latest hiring offers a clue

SAN RAMON (United States): Netflix has hired veteran video game executive Mike Verdu, signalling the video streaming service is poised to expand into another fertile field of entertainment.

Verdu’s addition as Netflix’s vice president of game development, confirmed Thursday, July 15, 2021, comes as the company seeks to sustain the momentum it gathered last year when people turned to the video streaming service to get through lockdowns imposed during the pandemic.