Netflix Taps Epic Games’ Alain Tascan as President of Games (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJennifer Maas TV Business Writer Epic Games‘ Alain Tascan is taking on the top job at Netflix‘s growing games division. Most recently, Tascan served as executive vice president of game development at Epic Games where he oversaw all first party game development for “Fortnite,” “Lego Fortnite,” “Rocket League” and “Fall Guys.” In his new role, Tascan will report directly to Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters.
Tascan’s appointment to Netflix’s president of games comes one month after the streamer announced Facebook and EA vet Mike Verdu, previously Netflix’s vice president of games, would be shifting into a new role focused on “transformative innovation in game creation and development.” Netflix launch its games business in November 2021 and has since acquired four gaming studios: Night School, Boss Fight, Next Games and Spry Fox.
The streamer is building two internal studios, one in Southern California and one in Helsinki. To date, Netflix has released more than 100 games, including internally-developed “Oxenfree II: Lost Signals,” which was considered one of the best games of 2023, the “Grand Theft Auto Trilogy,” and games based on hit Netflix IP like “Too Hot to Handle,” “Virgin River,” “Money Heist” and more.
Netflix has more than 80 games currently in development, including “Emily in Paris,” “Selling Sunset” and a multiplayer game based in the “Squid Game” universe, which will debut later this year pegged to the Season 2 launch of the TV series.
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