Scene from Stranger Things 3: The Game.

Stranger Things 3: The Game arrives July 4 with familiar retro look

Stranger Things 3: The Game will debut on the PC, consoles, and mobile devices on July 4, just as season three of the popular Netflix show Stranger Things debuts.

Netflix is moving into the game business. So now we don’t have to hear all that talk about who is going to be the “Netflix of games.” Clearly, it’s going to be Netflix.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.