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Title: Netflix reportedly shutters studio behind Squid Game mobile spinoff

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:11:56 +0000
Link: https://www.engadget.com/gaming/netflix-repor...

Netflix is reportedly closing its Boss Fight Entertainment game development
studio, according to various LinkedIn posts by staffers. The streaming giant
bought the company back in 2022 and it has been responsible for games like
Squid Game: Unleashed and the interactive narrative Netflix Stories.

This is relatively surprising, as Squid Game: Unleashed was something of a
hit. It launched alongside season two of the show and has amassed over ten
million downloads on the Google Play Store alone, according to reporting by
Mobilegamer. It recently received a major software update coinciding with
season three of the show.

Boss Fight Entertainment has around 80 staffers. It's unclear if they'll be
laid off or shuffled somewhere else within Netflix's gaming division.
Engadget has reached out to Netflix and will update this post when we hear
back.

Several designers at the company have expressed regret that we won't see what
it had planned for the future. "ItΓÇÖs infuriating that the world will never
see some of the stuff that was shuffled away behind the scenes," wrote design
director Damion Schubert on LinkedIn.

This is the second studio that Netflix has chased out the door in the past
year. It shut down its AAA game studio Team Blue, which had attracted
developers from Blizzard, Bungie and Sony Santa Monica. We never even got to
find out what the team was working on.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at
https://www.engadget.com/gaming/netflix-repor...
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