Annapurna Taps Netflix Exec For Its Beleaguered Gaming Label

Former Netflix executive Leanne Loombe is joining Annapurna Interactive arsenic executive vice president and caput of games, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Loombe helped build retired Netflix’s crippled betterment and publishing arm, and now she’ll apt look caller challenges arsenic a leader of nan gutted games publisher.

Annapurna Interactive, which is down celebrated indie titles for illustration Stray, Outer Wilds, and Gorogoa, knowledgeable an upheaval past twelvemonth erstwhile nan entirety of its unit resigned aft its owner, Megan Ellison, disagreed pinch nan employees’ wishes to rotation nan diligent disconnected into a caller company, Bloomberg reported astatine nan time. The erstwhile Annapurna Interactive portion members later took powerfulness of nan games published nether Private Division, an indie mentation antecedently owned by Take-Two Interactive, according to Bloomberg.

Loombe worked astatine Riot Games earlier joining Netflix successful 2021, wherever she brought titles for illustration Hades and nan Grand Theft Auto trilogy into nan streamer’s expanding gaming portfolio and helped caput up its unreality gaming initiative. As information of its net study released connected Tuesday, Netflix said it would “continue to proceedings and expand” its unreality gaming offering connected TV, arsenic bully arsenic attraction connected adding “immersive, communicative games based connected our IP, socially engaging connection games, games for kids and mainstream established titles” to its lineup.

“I’ve ever admired really incredibly thoughtful Annapurna Interactive is astir supporting developers who personification a beardown imaginative imagination and empowering them to create precocious worth games that players love,” Loombe said successful a position connected LinkedIn. “This is simply a erstwhile successful a life opportunity to proceed creating and strengthening a spot developers tin telephone home.”