Lastikka is known for his work as general manager and executive producer at EA as well as for almost nine years working with Digital Chocolate. He was responsible for the creation and live service operations of Simcity Buildit during his time at EA as well as working on Farmville 3 in his current role at Zynga.

Amir Rahimi, vice president of game studios at Netflix, stated: “This is another step in our vision to build a world-class games studio that will bring a variety of delightful and deeply engaging original games – with no ads and no in-app purchases – to our hundreds of millions of members around the world.” 

Rahimi said Netflix chose Helsinki, where it has already acquired the mobile game studio Next Games “because it is home to some of the best game talents in the world” – studios such as Supercell and Rovio.