Netflix is hiring Mike Verdu to lead the streaming company’s push into gaming. Verdu will join as vice president of game development and report to COO Greg Peters, Netflix confirmed Wednesday.
Verdu comes from Facebook, where he was vice president of content for Facebook Reality Labs, where he was in charge of working with developers to create games for Oculus.
Before joining Facebook, Verdu was senior vice president of mobile for Electronic Arts, responsible for mobile game studios that operated “SimCity BuildIt”, “Plants vs. Zombies 2,” “Real Racing 3,” “The Sims Freeplay,” “The Simpsons: Tapped Out,” “Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes,” and other mobile-game services.