Netflix Is Bringing These 5 Party Games to a TV Close to You

Netflix is about to offer sport night time a brand new look. The streaming big introduced Wednesday that it’s bringing 5 occasion video games to your TV “soon” in the course of the vacation season. Those video games are Boggle Party, Pictionary: Game Night, Tetris Time Warp, Lego Party and Party Crashers: Fool Your Friends. 

“Just scroll to the ‘Games’ tab on your TV, pick a game and use your phone as the controller to join the fun,” the corporate wrote online. 

To entry the video games, you will want a Netflix account and your telephone. With an iPhone, you may obtain the free Netflix Game Controller app from Apple’s App Store. If you’ve an Android gadget, it’s a must to obtain the Netflix app from the Google Play Store after which scan a QR code in your TV. According to Netflix, Android customers must scan a QR code every time they begin a sport.

Netflix has been concerned in video games, primarily cellular video games, for years. The firm has launched story-focused video games based mostly on Netflix reveals, like Too Hot to Handle, in addition to some extra well-known titles, like Grand Theft Auto. 

Earlier this yr, Netflix’s co-CEO Greg Peters stated in an earnings name that the corporate was planning on increasing into occasion and sofa co-op cloud video games.

“We think of this as a successor to family board game night or an evolution of what the game show on TV used to be,” he said at the time.

Games are included within the value of a Netflix subscription (beginning at $8 a month). You can entry the video games by means of the Netflix app in your cellular gadget. 

Netflix didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. 

For extra on Netflix video games, try what to find out about Spirit Crossing, WWE 2K and the Grand Theft Auto sequence on the service.

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