{"id":31972,"date":"2025-10-26T04:21:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T04:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/?p=31972"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:26:38","slug":"netflix-continues-to-scale-back-its-gaming-efforts-another-studio-has-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/netflix-continues-to-scale-back-its-gaming-efforts-another-studio-has-closed\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix continues to scale back its gaming efforts; Another studio has closed."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Netflix<\/strong>, which is changing its <strong>strategy<\/strong> regarding <strong>games<\/strong>, continues to close down its in-house <strong>studios<\/strong>. The <strong>studio<\/strong> that developed the <em>Squid Game<\/em> <strong>game<\/strong> was also affected by these closure decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/netflix-creates-metaverse-experience-in-decentraland\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"4786\">Netflix<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, which aimed to become a strong contender in the <strong>gaming<\/strong> sector and even made significant <strong>investments<\/strong> towards this goal, has recently started to step back in this area. While the company insists it will continue to <strong>invest<\/strong> in <strong>gaming<\/strong>, it is simultaneously closing its own <strong>studios<\/strong> one by one. Indeed, another <strong>studio<\/strong> was shut down this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/indir-44.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/indir-44.webp 720w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/indir-44-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/indir-44-390x220.webp 390w, https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/indir-44-150x84.webp 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The latest <strong>studio<\/strong> to be affected by <strong>Netflix<\/strong>&#8216;s scaling back of <strong>gaming investments<\/strong> was <strong>Boss Fight<\/strong>. <strong>Boss Fight<\/strong> CEO, David Rippy, announced the <strong>studio<\/strong>&#8216;s closure via his LinkedIn page. Yet, the <strong>game<\/strong> developed by the <strong>studio<\/strong>, <em>Squid Game: Unleashed<\/em>, was among the most <strong>popular games<\/strong> <strong>Netflix<\/strong> had released to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although <strong>Netflix<\/strong> has closed multiple <strong>studios<\/strong> recently, it is not expected to completely abandon the <strong>gaming<\/strong> sector. The company might continue to offer new <strong>games<\/strong> to its users by collaborating with <strong>studios<\/strong> not owned by them or by focusing on lower-budget productions. However, the plan to establish its own <strong>studios<\/strong> and develop notable <strong>games<\/strong>, which was attempted for a while, seems to have been largely shelved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">You Might Also Like;<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/the-dark-side-of-nanotechnology\/\">The Dark Side of Nanotechnology: Could Microscopic Swarms Erase Billions?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/the-illusion-of-digital-immortality\/\">The Illusion of Digital Immortality: Are You Really Uploading Your Mind?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/artemis-2s-deep-space-eclipse\/\">The View That Changes Everything: Artemis 2\u2019s Deep Space Eclipse<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix, which is changing its strategy regarding games, continues to close down its in-house studios. The studio that developed the Squid Game game was also affected by these closure decisions. Netflix, which aimed to become a strong contender in the gaming sector and even made significant investments towards this goal, has recently started to step &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAown96uCw:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[323],"tags":[204,325],"class_list":["post-31972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyberculture","tag-game-news","tag-games"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/metaverseplanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}