{"id":1945,"date":"2025-12-19T22:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/netflix-is-acquiring-an-avatar-company-as-it-moves-into-party-games\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:12:33","slug":"netflix-is-acquiring-an-avatar-company-as-it-moves-into-party-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/netflix-is-acquiring-an-avatar-company-as-it-moves-into-party-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix is acquiring an avatar company as it moves into party games"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/03\/acastro_STK072-05.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\" \/><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/p><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">As Netflix continues to build out its gaming strategy, which has recently included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\/820289\/netflix-casual-party-game-multiplayer-tetris-pictionary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a new era of TV party games<\/a>, it&rsquo;s going to let people build avatars &#8211; with the help of a new acquisition. The company is acquiring avatar company Ready Player Me and its \u00ab\u00a0cross-game avatar tech\u00a0\u00bb to let players \u00ab\u00a0carry their identities and fandom across games,\u00a0\u00bb according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/timmutoke_netflix-xready-player-me-im-excited-activity-7407832324232458243-7s38\/?utm_source=share&amp;utm_medium=member_desktop&amp;rcm=ACoAAAEpYG0BEjwzgXtaIiduzMgf2iJBEC75_10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ready Player Me CEO Timmu T\u00f5ke<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Netflix \u00ab\u00a0doesn&rsquo;t have an estimate of how long it will be until avatars launch\u00a0\u00bb or which games will get them first, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/19\/netflix-acquires-gaming-avatar-maker-ready-player-me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>TechCrunch<\/em> reports<\/a>. Terms of the deal haven&rsquo;t been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Ready Player Me&rsquo;s team of about 20 people will join Netflix. The company&rsquo;s service \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\/848252\/netflix-avatar-company-ready-player-me-acquisition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Netflix continues to build out its gaming strategy, which has recently included a new era of TV party games, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}