When Netflix games chief Alain Tascan sat in front of a room full of reporters at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco on March 19, he spoke more openly about the streamer’s gaming strategy than any exec ever has since the Big Red N signaled it was getting into the biz in 2021.
Tascan’s boldest statement during the two-hour presentation: “We have to match the overall mission of Netflix — otherwise we’re just a distraction.”
The exec, who joined Netflix in July 2024 with 30 years of industry experience at “Fortnite” maker Epic Games, EA and Ubisoft, was acknowledging the elephant in the room. The question looming
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