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  • Netflix acquires Boss Fight Entertainment, its third game studio

    Netflix acquires Boss Fight Entertainment, its third game studio

    Mumbai: Streaming major Netflix has announced the acquisition of Texas-based independent video game developer Boss Fight Entertainment. This is the streamer’s third studio purchase since it revealed the plans to enter the lucrative mobile game market last year.

    The financial terms of the agreement are kept under wraps.

    ALSO READ | Netflix launches first two mobile games in Poland

    Boss Fight Entertainment was founded in 2013 by David Rippy, Bill Jackson, and Scott Winsett. The Boss Fight Entertainment team will continue to operate out of their current studios in Allen (Dallas), Austin, and Seattle.

    “Since we launched mobile games to our members around the world just four months ago, we’ve been expanding our games catalog bit by bit as we build out our in-house creative development team,” said Netflix VP of game studios Amir Rahimi. “Through partnerships with developers around the world, hiring top talent, and acquisitions like this, we hope to build a world-class games studio capable of bringing a wide variety of delightful and deeply engaging original games.”

    “Boss Fight’s mission is to bring simple, beautiful, and fun game experiences to our players wherever they want to play,” said the founders of Boss Fight Entertainment in a joint statement. “Netflix’s commitment to offering ad-free games as part of members’ subscriptions enables game developers like us to focus on creating delightful game play without worrying about monetisation. We couldn’t be more excited to join Netflix at this early stage as we continue doing what we love to do while helping to shape the future of games on Netflix together.”

    Earlier this month, Netflix had announced the purchase of the game studio Next Games and in September it had bought Night School.

  • Netflix launches first two mobile games in Poland

    Netflix launches first two mobile games in Poland

    Mumbai: Netflix has launched its first two mobile games on Android – “Stranger Things: 1984” and “Stranger Things 3” for members in Poland. Netflix Geeked made the announcement on 26 August via their official Twitter handle.  

    “Today members in Poland can try Netflix mobile gaming on Android with two games, Stranger Things: 1984 and Stranger Things 3. It’s very, very early days and we’ve got a lot of work to do in the months ahead, but this is the first step,” reads the tweet.

    According to a report by Variety, Netflix games will have no ads or in-app purchases and titles will be included with a Netflix streaming plan. In the Android app, available game titles will show up under a new menu that says ‘Play Mobile Games’ and users who click on it will be directed to a Google Play Store page to download the game. The report indicates that over time the games will be more tightly integrated into the Netflix app itself.

    “Stranger Things 3: The Game” is developed by studio BonusXP and allows gamers to play through familiar events in Stranger Things season three where they will be able to uncover new quests, character interactions and secrets. “Stranger Things: 1984” is described as a stylized retro action-adventure similar to the arcade games back in the 80s, letting players solve puzzles, collect Eggos and gnomes along the way, said the Variety report.

    In July, Netflix hired former Facebook, vice president, Mike Verdu to head its video games unit as vice president, game development. Verdu has been associated with EA Mobile, Kabam, TapZen and served as chief executive officer at Zynga from 2009 to 2012.  

    Last month, the company officially revealed its plans to enter the video game market as a new category to help it attract and retain customers. In their second-quarter earnings call, co-CEO Reed Hastings emphasised that Netflix is not looking to generate revenues from video games per se, it is about “enhancing the big service that we have”, he noted.