E3 2019: Netflix takes step toward multimedia empire with new videogames

(FILES) This file photo taken on September 11, 2014 illustrates the on-demand internet streaming media provider, Netflix, on the home video game console PlayStation 3 in Stockholm. Video streaming giant Netflix said on February 24, 2016 it is making its first original German series, to debut in 2017. / AFP / JONATHAN NACKSTRAND

Netflix Inc is unveiling new videogames based on its shows, stepping up efforts to turn its streaming platform into a multimedia empire. 

Stranger Things 3: The Game, a title based on the popular teen series, will come out on July 4, the same day the third season of the show debuts. Netflix has also licensed The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance – a prequel series to the 1980s Jim Henson film – for a game that will debut later this year. The company isn’t developing or producing the videogames itself, opting instead to license the characters to outside studios.