Netflix Video games confirms departure of former president and VP of GenAI Mike Verdu
Netflix Video games’ VP of generative AI, Mike Verdu, has left the streaming large.
Though Netflix confirmed Verdu’s departure in an announcement to Game File, the corporate didn’t touch upon why the VP left after simply 5 months within the function, nor revealed who has changed him.
Verdu joined Netflix in 2021 to launch its games division. In November 2024, nonetheless, after a administration restructure, Verdu was moved into the role of VP of generative AI for games, with former Epic Games exec Alain Tascan brought in to lead Netflix’s gaming portfolio.
“Many view [AI] know-how with worry, however I’m a game-maker at coronary heart and I see its potential to unlock all of us, to create mind-blowing new experiences for gamers, to elevate us to new heights,” Verdu stated on the time. “Sure, we’ll must adapt and alter, however when have we failed to fulfill that problem as an business?”
Netflix has been investing closely in video video games for the previous few years, particularly since first hiring Verdu in 2021. The leisure streaming agency acquired a number of studios and opened two inner ones, though it introduced in October it will be closing the California studio, and canceled six games as part of plans to “adjust [its] portfolio” in February, together with reducing an undisclosed variety of workers from Netflix-owned Night School Studio.
Netflix’s video video games are solely obtainable on cell to this point, with lifetime downloads of the 100-plus titles passing 210 million in September.
Annapurna Interactive appointed former Netflix Games exec Leanne Loombe as head of games in January.
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