Netflix closes AAA game studio before it ever released a game

The first cracks are starting to show successful Netflix’s push into gaming. First reported successful Game File and confirmed by Netflix, the streaming institution has softly closed of 1 of its studios, the first successful the 3 years since the institution began its foray into gaming.

According to Game File, the shuttered workplace was known arsenic Blue. In 2022, Netflix announced it hired erstwhile Overwatch executive shaper Chacko Sonny to tally the studio. Since then, Blue had brought connected a number of crippled manufacture veterans pinch acquisition moving connected precocious floor plan franchises including Halo and God of War. Reportedly, Blue was developing a multi-platform AAA crippled for an original IP but was closed earlier the crippled could beryllium announced aliases released.

Netflix has released a dependable watercourse of games connected its level since the opening of its gaming research successful 2021. Though it started pinch a mini fistful of hyper-casual mobile games, Netflix’s offerings person expanded to see mobile exclusive ports of iconic games for illustration Grand Theft Auto and Hades its ain internally developed exclusives for illustration Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit and Oxenfree II: Lost Signals.

Netflix has besides acquired aliases spun-up a number of studios to support its gaming pipeline. The astir caller additions were a mobile crippled workplace successful Helsinki, a caller workplace successful confederate California, and Cozy Grove developer Spry Fox. But pinch the closure of Blue, Netflix’s inclination of description whitethorn beryllium complete arsenic good arsenic its grander AAA ambitions.