It’s a step toward Netflix’s ‘vision to build a world-class games studio’ Netflix newest investment in video games is opening its first internal game development studio from the ground up, built for the streaming giant from the ground up.
The studio purchased another Helsinki-based studio called Next Games earlier this year, and previously acquired Oxenfree developer Night School Studio and Boss Fight Entertainment.
So far, the company has focused on buying pre-existing studios to invest in game development.
The new studio — the fourth games studio owned by Netflix — will be based in Helsinki, Finland, and will bolster Netflix’s efforts to bring “engaging original games” to their hundreds of millions of subscribers around the world, vice president of Netflix’s Game Studios said.