The new game studio will be Netflix’s fourth overall.
Netflix Inc. is creating its first in-house video games studio in a push to be less reliant on third-party creators and expand its gaming offerings.from Netflix on Monday.
Lastikka previously spent more than five years at Zynga Inc., where he worked on FarmVille 3, and before that was the co-founder and executive producer at Electronic Arts Inc.’s Tracktwenty studio in Helsinki, according to his LinkedIn page. “This is another step in our vision to build a world-class games studio that will bring a variety of delightful and deeply engaging original games — with no ads and no in-app purchases — to our hundreds of millions of members around the world,” Amir Rahimi, vice president of game studios at Netflix, said in the statement.
The new games studio will be Netflix’s fourth overall after the company acquired another Helsinki-based studio,