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Netflix Is Getting Into Gaming at the Worst Possible Time

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The streaming giant is diving into the gaming industry amid an employee revolt, a PR crisis, the Twitch data leak, and a general resistance to big tech. What could go wrong?

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Netflix is taking on the gaming industry. On a recent earnings call, Netflix updated stockholders that they’d begun testing downloadable mobile games like Stranger Things 3 in select countries and markets, but “it remains very early days for this initiative.”

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