Netflix has acquired game development studio Boss Fight Entertainment.
This is the second acquisition this month by the streaming giant. Earlier, it said it would acquire Next Games, a developer and publisher of mobile games based in Helsinki, Finland.
Headquartered in Allen, Texas, the Boss Fight Entertainment team will continue to operate out of their current studios in Allen (Dallas), Austin, and Seattle, which will also enable us to tap into great creative talent beyond California, the company said.
In a blog post on Thursday, March 24, Amir Rahimi, VP of Game Studios at Netflix, said, “Since we launched mobile games to our members around the world just four months ago, we’ve been expanding our games catalogue bit by bit as we build out our in-house creative development team. So today, we’re excited to announce that Boss Fight Entertainment is joining Netflix.”
“Boss Fight Entertainment was founded in 2013 by David Rippy (CEO), Bill Jackson (CCO), and Scott Winsett (COO), whose work I’ve long admired. This studio’s extensive experience building hit games across genres will help accelerate our ability to provide Netflix members with great games wherever they want to play them,” he added.
Rahimi said Netflix is “still in the early days of building great game experiences”.
The founders of Boss Fight Entertainment said Boss Fight’s mission is to bring simple, beautiful, and fun game experiences to its players wherever they want to play.
“Netflix’s commitment to offering ad-free games as part of members’ subscriptions enables game developers like us to focus on creating delightful gameplay without worrying about monetization. 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.”
Some of the games from Boss Fight Entertainment include Age of Empires Star Wars: The Old Republic, Halo Wars franchises, CastleVille, Dungeon Boss, myVEGAS Bingo and Kingdom Boss.