It is no secret the amount of direction Netflix is taking to establish itself in the video game industry. Although the firm is going head first with mobile gaming via the Netflix app currently, the firm is certainly not holding back. In the past, we saw this with the surprising acquisition of Night School Games (Oxenfree, After Party) more than a year ago. The most recent is the long-awaited Ubisoft sequel for Valiant Hearts being a platform exclusive.
Moreover, the firm is also continuing its efforts with its television & films as well. One announcement shares Netflix has arranged to deliver the upcoming Gears of War motion picture which was originally helmed by Universal Pictures back in 2018. Additionally, Netflix is also orchestrating its efforts on the upcoming Horizon Zero Dawn show with Umbrella Academy showrunner Steve Blackman to produce the series.
Now in a surprise turn of events, it appears that the upcoming Netflix hallmark Rebel Moon is to receive its own video game. What is more eye-opening is the little bit that director Zach Snyder explained in a conversation on The Nerd Queens interview. You can view the segment of the conversation below:
“I mean the one thing I’m having a really good time with- I don’t know if I’m supposed to talk about it, but’ y’know this RPG that we’re doing that is just literally insane and so immersive and so intense and so huge. And like we talked about how we would do the game and we said ‘let’s go’” Snyder explains in the interview. When pressed on the direction the title is to offer he answered: “I’m not gonna say”.
Adding: “All I’ll say is that what we thought we were gonna do- it was pitched to me cause I always wanted to do an RPG […] we could do it at this scale, right, and this scale, or we could do it at ridiculous scale and I was like ‘ridiculous scale’ and ridiculous scale is clearly the one we’re doing. They were like ‘it’s going to take so much time because we gotta do all these brain dumps; you’ve got to tell of everything in this universe and I was like ‘that’s fine’”.
What makes this new learning more interesting is there was a sign of this “ridiculous scale’ project earlier in 2022. Previously, Netflix did flag new job listings for AAA titles for PC. Although mobile right now is the forte for the platform, it did disclose efforts to ship grander titles to more capable systems later down the road and this might be the first sign of that. You can read the full report by heading here.
What do you think about the possible Rebel Moon game?
Rebel Moon is scheduled to release sometime later in 2023.
