Monument Valley 3 is heading to Netflix Games to avoid App Store ‘compromise’

Ustwo Games is revisiting the series that launched it into the stratosphere over a decade ago with Monument Valley 3. The threequel was unveiled at Gamescom 2024, but unlike its forebears will be shunning the App Store and launching exclusively on Netflix Games.

This isn't the first time Ustwo has collaborated with Netflix. The studio launched Desta: The Memories Between exclusively on the platform, which grants all subscribers access to a growing roster of video games on smartphones and other devices, before eventually bringing it to PC and Nintendo Switch.

Monument Valley, though, is a different beast. When it launched in 2014, the atmospheric puzzler became a poster child for Apple's digital marketplace. The inevitable sequel, Monument Valley 2, debuted exclusively on iOS in June 2017 before shuffling onto Andro…

Press Play co-founders regroup to form new studio, Lightbulb

Newsbrief: Press Play founders Ole Teglbjærg, Rune Dittmer, and Mikkel Thorsted have regrouped to launch new studio, Lightbulb. 

Before it was closed alongside Lionhead by Microsoft, Press Play had garnered attention thanks to its work on titles such as Max: The Curse of the Brotherhood, Tentacles: Enter the Mind, and Kalimba

Under their new banner, the team has already started work on Pioneers, a physics-based construction game that'll make its PC debut in 2017. 

"We are excited to be back and to embark on this new challenge as Lightbulb games. We're a bunch of battle proven veterans from Press Play, who together cover all the bases needed to create Pioneers