Netflix is developing features that would allow members to play its mobile games with one another and competitively rank themselves on gaming leaderboards. The company, starting last month, quietly launched the ability for users to create unique “game handles” in a subset of its mobile games, including Into The Breach, …
Read More »Watch The First Trailer For Netflix’s The Defenders
Not only did Netflix finally release a trailer for their superhero team-up series The Defenders, but they’ve also given us a release date as well. Now that’s something to be excited about. We’ve known for awhile that Netflix had been planning for their Marvel superheroes to meet up, and we …
Read More »Upcoming Nvidia Driver Will Enable Netflix 4K Streaming, Sort Of
Over the past year, it’s often seemed as if Microsoft and Netflix have done everything they could possibly do to prevent 4K streaming on PCs. While 4K started rolling out on Netflix several years ago, only a handful of smart TVs were supported. The situation has only improved slightly since …
Read More »Netflix brings offline viewing to Windows 10 PCs and tablets
Netflix added support for offline viewing on iOS and Android late last year, and today it’s bringing the same feature to Windows 10, with the exception of Windows 10 mobile devices. Arriving now in the updated Windows 10 application, a subset of the Netflix catalog can be downloaded to your PC or …
Read More »Netflix becomes the Top Grossing iPhone app for the first time
Netflix’s decision to introduce an in-app subscription option in its iOS app over a year ago has helped the streaming service steadily gain more subscribers, and surge up the Top Grossing charts in the Apple App Store. Back in November of last year, the app hit the Top Grossing chart for the first …
Read More »HBO leads the Golden Globes again, as attention for Netflix and Amazon cools
The top two streaming services won’t be dominating the Golden Globes this year, despite the investments Netflix and Amazon have made into funding their own original content. In fact, Netflix is having a down year – with just five TV nominations, that’s the lowest number of nods it’s received since entering …
Read More »Optus to offer up to six months of Netflix to customers
In addition to making Netflix unmetered for all broadband customers, Optus has announced that it will be giving up to six months of Netflix to all new and reconnecting customers for free – but only if you sign up between March 24 and July 5. Customers will get six months …
Read More »4K Netflix is finally coming to PCs, but you probably still can’t watch it
Chalk this one up as mildly infuriating. In the past, we’ve covered Netflix’s 4K streaming limitations and how the platform was limited to handful of televisions, even though PCs are easily capable of handling 4K. Now we know that 4K content is officially coming to the PC with the release …
Read More »Netflix finally offers offline viewing, video downloads
Ever since Netflix debuted its online streaming service, it’s had one major limitation — you couldn’t download shows for later viewing. This made the service less useful while traveling, since airport and airplane WiFi are often expensive and/or slow and relatively few vehicles are WiFi-enabled. Amazon implemented downloading for at …
Read More »Netflix comes to Google’s Daydream VR
Google’s Daydream VR platform launched without support for Netflix, leaving Play Movies and TV as the only native video streaming source. Hulu was added a few weeks back, but Netflix is what everyone really wants. That app has just been added to the Daydream Play Store, but it isn’t quite …
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