Now Playing on Netflix: Your Teenager

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Movies and video games have been intrinsically linked for years -- by both the arcade machines still found in lobbies of your local multiplex and the hundreds of games based on big-screen adventures (who can forget GoldenEye 007 on the Nintendo 64?).

On Wednesday, Netflix announced plans to cash in on that connection -- and add to it -- by buying its second video game studio in six months. The streaming giant will spend more than $70 million on Finland-based studio Next Games, creator of games based on Netflix's Stranger Things franchise.

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Source Fool.com