Netflix is reportedly closing its game development studio Boss Fight Entertainment. . The streaming giant bought the company back in 2022 and has been responsible for games like and interactive narrative Netflix Stories.
This is relatively surprising, since The Squid Game: Unleashed It was kind of a success. It was released alongside the second season of the show and has amassed over ten million downloads on the Google Play Store alone. . It recently received a major software update coinciding with the show’s third season.
Boss Fight Entertainment has around 80 employees. It is unclear whether they will be fired or moved elsewhere within Netflix’s gaming division. Engadget has reached out to Netflix and will update this post when we hear back.
Several designers from the company have regretted that we do not see what they had planned for the future. “It’s infuriating that the world will never see some of the things that were hidden behind the scenes,” the design director wrote. .
This is the second studio that Netflix has expelled in the last year. He closed his which attracted developers from Blizzard, Bungie and Sony Santa Monica. We didn’t even get to know what the team was working on.
