In the past few years, it has become more common for media companies to add games to their services.
Streaming services and apps are looking for ways to keep their users’ attention in a world where users are becoming more competitive and their attention spans are getting shorter. To keep people on their site, it makes sense for businesses to branch out into gaming: The gaming business is worth about $221 billion around the world, which makes it an appealing way to make money.
Here are the newest companies getting into the gaming business, along with information about what they’re giving, such as prices, examples of games, and devices that they work with.
Games On Netflix
Netflix has a wide range of games, with almost 100 titles, including well-known ones like GTA: The Trilogy, Assassin’s Creed, and Monument Valley. Finally, Netflix is better than the other services on our list because it has a bigger library of games based on original shows like “Love Is Blind,” “The Queen’s Gambit,” “Stranger Things,” and more.
Netflix subscribers can play games for free through the company’s mobile app, which works on both iOS and Android phones and tablets. Players can look through the library of games and then download the game from Google Play or Apple’s App Store.
Sign up for Netflix if you want to try the games. Standard with ads costs $6.99 a month, Standard is $15.49 a month, and Premium is $22.99 a month. There aren’t any ads or add-ons right now, but that could change.
Netflix got into the gaming business in 2021, but its games didn’t really take off until recently, when they got 81.2 million downloads across the App Store and Google Play Store in 2023.
Since it first opened, the company has added many new games to its area. For example, it was recently seen trying out the feature that would let you play games right in your computer. Also, gamer tags have been added, and a cloud gaming service is being tested.
Playables On YouTube
YouTube has always been a great place for gamers to livestream events and make videos about popular video games, so it makes sense for the company to branch out into gaming. The video platform owned by Google added games to its service publicly in May 2024, giving users access to more than 75 minigames.
YouTube’s selection of games is called “Playables,” and it includes some famous games like Angry Birds Showdown, Cut the Rope, Trivia Crack, and 8 Ball Billiards Classic. The games are mostly made to be fun ways to pass the time on the way to work or for relaxed play in between watching YouTube videos.
Before, YouTube Premium members were the only ones who could play the minigames. Now, anyone can play them for free. The service can be used on a computer, an Android phone, or an iOS phone. There are no downloads needed.
Sling TV Game
Keeping up with its competitors is hard for Sling TV. To attract and keep users, the DISH-owned streaming service launched a free game platform called “Arcade.” With the new feature, people can watch their favorite TV show or movie and play a number of classic video games at the same time.
At the moment, there are only 10 games to choose from, such as Doodle Jump, Solitaire Clash, Tetris, and Wheel of Fortune. The company told TechCrunch before that it would keep adding games every couple of months, especially before big sports events.
Just hold down on the player and click on “Interactive Features” while watching a movie or TV show. This will bring up the Arcade. Once you choose a game, it will show up next to what you’re watching in a split screen, which is helpful for days when you just want to watch reruns of your favorite reality TV show. You can also make the game take up the whole screen.
Arcade is offered on Sling TV ($40–$45/month) and Sling Freestream, which is the company’s free streaming service that shows ads. At the moment, though, it only works on a few devices: Amazon Fire TV, Android TV, Comcast, Samsung, and Vizio.
There Are Games On LinkedIn Too
Entertainment sites aren’t the only ones that look into gaming. LinkedIn’s move into gaming is a big step forward for the business and shows that it is more than just a tool for professional networking.
In May, LinkedIn said it was adding three games to its platform in order to get more users. The games are called Queens, which is like Sudoku, Crossclimb, which is a quiz game, and Pinpoint, which is like the New York Times’ Connections game.
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Each game is meant to help you get to know people in your network better, and you can only play them with first-degree ties, or LinkedIn contacts you already have. You can only play games once every day.
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