{"id":99203,"date":"2025-10-24T19:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/99203\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T19:33:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:33:09","slug":"squid-game-mobile-game-studio-by-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/99203\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Squid Game&#8217; Mobile Game\u00a0Studio by Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/netflix\/\" id=\"auto-tag_netflix\" data-tag=\"netflix\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a> has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/gaming\/news\/netflix-top-mobile-games-squid-game-solitaire-gta-1236488787\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/gaming\/news\/netflix-top-mobile-games-squid-game-solitaire-gta-1236488787\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">its hit mobile game<\/a> based on the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/squid-game\/\" id=\"auto-tag_squid-game\" data-tag=\"squid-game\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Squid Game<\/a>\u201d franchise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe two games the developer has released for the streamer, the \u201cNetflix Stories\u201d (<a data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/netflix-stories-mobile-games-shuts-down-1236350580\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/tv\/news\/netflix-stories-mobile-games-shuts-down-1236350580\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">which had already stopped releasing new titles earlier this year<\/a>) series and \u201cSquid Game: Unleashed,\u201d will continue to be available via Netflix. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe studio closure comes as Netflix continuing to adjust its gaming strategy under president Alain Tascan, who joined the company in July 2024. The games division, which launched in November 2021, is now focused on party games (a slew of which will be released this holiday season), narrative games, kids games and mainstream games, as well as games played directly on TVs versus mainly mobile titles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHowever, the shuttering of Boss Fight is still a shock, considering that \u201cSquid Game: Unleashed\u201d had been touted as a very successful title by Netflix upon its release last December, and Netflix continues to emphasize the importance of developing content around its owned IP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cHi everyone \u2013 well, word has gotten around quickly about Boss Fight\u2019s closure,\u201d Boss Fight co-founder and CEO David Rippy said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7387225251513827328\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn:li:activity:7387225251513827328\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement posted to LinkedIn Thursday<\/a>. \u201cThanks, everyone who reached out today. Rough news, for sure, but I\u2019m very grateful for the time we had at Netflix. We worked with some awesome people and made many games that I\u2019m very proud of, including Squid Game Unleased which hit #1 in 26 countries. You\u2019ll see lots of Boss Fighters with similar posts. Please consider them if you have any open roles \u2013 they are outstanding people and true professionals through-and-through. As for Bill, Scott and me \u2013 we\u2019re going to take a little breather before tackling whatever is next. Love to hear from you if there\u2019s anything interesting going on, workwise or otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix has shut down Boss Fight Entertainment, the studio behind its hit mobile game based on the \u201cSquid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1094,111,139,69,65883,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-99203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-netflix","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-squid-game","13":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}