since his arrival at the end of 2021Netflix has been looking for new ways to increase the use of its game catalog for smartphones, with titles arriving every month and now with a new feature that allows you to stream and play them from your smartphone. televisions, computers, and other mobile devices.

The company has disclosed on his blog that a select few users will be able to use their televisions, but also their PCs and Macs to be able to cast the two games that will be part of their initial testing, used as controllers, as the case may be, smartphone or keyboard and mouse.

Games on Netflix

This beta test will be conducted on “small number of members” from Canada and England on certain televisions, which makes it possible to play the titles ‘Oxenfree’ from Night School Studio and ‘Molehew’s Mining Adventure’, a gem mining arcade game.

To interact, if done from a television, the smartphone will act as a controller, if needed scan the QR code which will appear on the screen. This will allow both devices to pair and display the necessary in-game buttons on the phone.

If the user is connecting from a computer, they must access the game from the Netflix.com page, using your keyboard and mouse as a control.

Televisions and equipment supported

According to the company, the test is meant to test game streaming technology and controllers improve the experience over time.

Users in certain countries will be able to use this new feature if they own a device from brands such as Amazon Fire TV, Chromecast with Google TVLG TVs, Nvidia Shield TVs, Roku TVs and devices, Samsung Smart TVs and Walmart ONN, with support for additional devices coming soon.