Netflix in Talks to Bring a New Grand Theft Auto Title to Its Games Service 71h2m Report

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Written by Siddharth Suvarna | Updated: 17 October 2023 15:23 IST

Netflix in Talks to Bring a New Grand Theft Auto Title to Its Games Service: Report

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Netfix Games added Nailed It! Baking Bash and Spiritfarer to its library in October

Highlights

A new GTA title on Netflix Games is likely to be a mobile release
Netflix Games is expanding to game streaming on TVs and PCs
Netflix has also launched a game controller app on iOS

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Netflix Games platform would likely be a mobile title.

According to a Take-Two Interactive over plans to release a GTA title for its catalogue via a licensing deal. No details about the deal or the type of game planned for release are available just yet.

An active Netflix subscription grants you access to its Netflix Games service, a growing catalogue of games available to play on mobile and tablets. The streamer has recently also started testing its games on more devices. A new GTA title on Netflix Games would thus likely be a mobile title. It's worth noting that mobile versions of mainline GTA titles already exist on both Android and iOS. Grand Theft Auto 3, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas are available to as part of the Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy bundle on Apple's GTA: Chinatown Wars, a handheld title originally released on the Nintendo DS and the PlayStation Portable, is also available on both mobile platforms.

Netflix Begins Testing Game Streaming on TVs, PCs, and Macs: Details

The WSJ report claims that Netflix is doubling down on its effort to bring more games to its subscribers and is focussed on adding higher quality titles to its roster, which can be played on TVs and PCs via game streaming. The streamer will reportedly also add games based on its hit shows, with Squid Game and Wednesday mobile games arriving in the coming months. Back in July, the company added The Queen's Gambit Chess, based on its popular The Queen's Gambit series starring Anya Taylor-Joy, to Netflix Games service on both Android and iOS.

Meanwhile, in August, Netflix Oxenfree and Molehew's Mining Adventure — included in the testing period. Netflix subscribers will be able to use their phone as a controller, with a dedicated Netflix Game Controller app available to on the App Store.

Netflix Spiritfarer to the service. Nailed It! is an arcade cooking game in the vein of Overcooked, while Spiritfarer is an adventure platformer with shipbuilding at its core.

While there's no release timeline for the GTA title coming to Netflix, a Rockstar is hard on work on the next mainline GTA title, which we know will be set in Miami's Vice City and will feature two playable protagonists, Lucia and Jason.

What are the most exciting titles that gamers can look forward to in 2023? We discuss some of our favourites on the latest episode of Orbital, the Gadgets 360 podcast. Orbital is available on Spotify, Gaana, JioSaavn, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and wherever you get your podcasts.

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