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Netflix VP of exterior video games Leanne Loombe is leaving the streaming agency.
The chief joined the corporate in 2021 because it started constructing its video games division. She was answerable for heading up the agency’s second and third-party improvement and publishing operations, overseeing and sourcing its portfolio of video games.
PocketGamer.biz has reached out to Netflix for touch upon the matter.
Government shakeup
Loombe’s departure comes as Netflix restructures its video games division beneath new president Alain Tascan. The previous Epic Video games EVP of improvement joined the corporate in July, changing the agency’s earlier VP of video games Mike Verdu. The latter government now has a brand new position as VP of GenAI.
Netflix’s shakeup resulted within the closure of its inner studio Group Blue, which was reportedly engaged on a triple-A multi-platform sport.
Key employees members on the studio reminiscent of Overwatch government producer Chacko Sonny, Halo inventive lead Joesph Staten and God of Conflict artwork director Rafael Grassetti additionally left the corporate.
Lately, Netflix eliminated GTA 3 and Vice Metropolis from its video games library one 12 months after bringing the GTA Trilogy remastered to its subscription service. The titles have been two of the corporate’s most downloaded video games, with solely San Andreas from the trilogy at present nonetheless accessible to put in.
Recalibrating funding
In an investor name final 12 months, Netflix co-CEO Gregory Peters mentioned that engagement and the impression of video games on its general enterprise on the present scale was “nonetheless fairly small”.
“It is also most likely value noting that the funding degree in video games relative to our general content material spend can be fairly small,” he mentioned. “And we have calibrated the expansion in funding with the expansion within the enterprise impression. So we’re being disciplined about how we scale that.
“So now clearly, the job is to proceed to develop that engagement to the place the place it has a fabric impression on the enterprise.”
Peters additionally claimed the corporate had tripled engagement with its video games, however didn’t present information on precise figures.
In an interview with PocketGamer.biz final 12 months, Loombe mentioned video games remained a “long-term wager” for Netflix.
