Netflix at this time has announced its acquisition of cell recreation improvement studio Boss Battle Leisure. The streaming firm has been making strikes to broaden its output of content material over the previous 12 months. Asserting in 2021 that it was going to offer cell video games via the Netflix app on Android and iOS units.
It then bought the sport studio behind Oxenfree, Evening Faculty, again in September of 2021. A brief few months after it started testing cell video games on its platform. And simply this month, it bought Subsequent Video games, the studio answerable for the event of a puzzle recreation based mostly on Netflix’s extremely widespread Stranger Issues franchise.
That makes the second cell recreation improvement studio buy for Netflix in a single month, and the third studio buy total. And it wouldn’t be stunning if this wasn’t the final.
Boss Battle is becoming a member of Netflix to assist speed up recreation availability
Netflix is seeking to proceed increasing the variety of video games it affords to subscribers. In at this time’s announcement, the corporate states that its acquisition of Boss Battle Leisure will assist it speed up its capability to ship nice video games to customers. Irrespective of the place they’re.
Netflix appears to be leaning arduous into the cell recreation technique. Widening its viewers of gamers by including a various catalog of titles whereas additionally shopping for up studios that may assist it make in-house releases.
With three studios now beneath the Netflix umbrella, that objective is now ever nearer. Boss Battle has loved success for a cell title known as Dungeon Boss Heroes. A fantasy technique RPG recreation that has over 5 million installs on Android. To not point out a 4.4 star ranking and a few favorable opinions.
Boss Battle’s historical past in video games
Curiously, Dungeon Boss Heroes appears to be Boss Battle’s solely cell recreation listed. There are not any different titles from the studio obtainable on Android or iOS. And its web site solely showcases the one recreation. However in accordance with a wiki search the studio additionally developed a recreation known as myVEGAS Bingo revealed by PLAYSTUDIOSINC.
Regardless of its seemingly low footprint, the studio is made up of veteran builders. Based in 2013 in Allen, Texas, a few of Boss Battle’s accolades embrace work on quite a few titles throughout platforms. Together with the Halo Wars franchise, Age of Empires, and Star Wars The Previous Republic.
Netflix says Boss Battle will proceed to function out of its present workplaces in Allen, Austin, and Seattle. Permitting the corporate “faucet into expertise past California.”
