Netflix bought yet another studio as part of gaming push

Netflix has added one other sport developer to its ranks. The corporate introduced that it has acquired Boss Struggle Leisure, a cell studio based mostly in Texas. It’s the third sport studio that Netflix has scooped up following Oxenfree developer Night time College and Subsequent Video games, the crew behind a Stranger Issues puzzle sport. Previous video games from Boss Struggle embody a cell technique sport known as Dungeon Boss; the studio was based following the closure of Zynga’s Dallas studio, which developed the Fb sport CastleVille.

The information comes as Netflix is making a serious push into the gaming area. Along with buying established studios, Netflix has additionally made cell video games part of its subscription bundle — simply this week noticed the announcement of three new video games on the platform — whereas additionally experimenting with interactive sequence, together with an upcoming every day trivia sport known as Trivia Quest.

With reference to Boss Struggle, Netflix’s VP of sport studios, Amir Rahimi, mentioned in a press release that “this studio’s intensive expertise constructing hit video games throughout genres will assist speed up our means to offer Netflix members with nice video games wherever they wish to play them.”