It appears that Netflix is to expand its presence on video game consoles even further. By way of a new job listing, Gamasutra has learned the video rental service is seeking a high-level "Engineering Leader" with "deep experience developing and testing media rich applications on current generation gaming consoles."
The posting asks for experience developing games on current-gen consoles, the better to understand their "technical hurdles."
"Expect to help build a small technology team to rapidly prototype and iterate on a variety of platforms," says the posting, which also says the candidate will lead a "small team with a huge mandate."
The Fallout 4 next-gen update is now live, bringing with it improved performance and visuals, as well as brand-new exclusive content. This new update brings the latest single-player entry in the series up to modern standards, with it also marking an official PS5 release of Fallout 4.
"The German-Austrian-based indie games publisher Toplitz Productions and indie games developer Game Island, are today super happy and excited to announce that they have just kicked-off an playtest period for their first-person survival/adventure game “Serum“ (the said playtest is live right now for PC via Steam)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
"The Watford-based /(the UK) indie games publisher Wired Productions and Shanghai-based (China) indie games developer POLLARD STUDIO, are today very happy and excited to announce that their psychological thriller "Karma: The Dark World", is now currently in development for PC (as announced during the Wired Direct 2024 live event)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
First, we were told "I bought my console for the GAMEZ, not for the movies!" when the PS3 came out.
Then it was "Hah! HD-DVD will be the clear victor over Blu Ray!!!"
Then it was "HD-DVD lost? Who cares? I bought my console for the GAMEZ, not for the movies!"
Then it was "Netflix? Sweet! Look at all these movies I can watch on my system! Skip Blu Ray! Hah hah!"
Now it'll be "Netflix? Who cares? At least we still have cross-game chat!"