Netflix has shut down its Southern California-based video game studio, referred to internassociate as “Team Blue,” which had a particular center on producing AAA games.
The studio, one of disconnectal uncovered by the streamer during its still-lesser push into gaming, tapped execs including “Overwatch” creater Chacko Sonny, “Halo” alum Joseph Staten and “God of War” art straightforwardor Rafael Grassetti. All three have now exited Netflix amid the clocertain of the team Blue home base in October, a source has validateed to Variety.
Netflix deteriorated Variety‘s seek for comment Tuesday.
Netflix started its games business in November 2021 and has since achieved four gaming studios: Night School, Boss Fight, Next Games and Spry Fox. The streamer also built two inner studios, the team Blue one in Southern California and another in Helsinki.
In July, Netflix employd Epic Games’ Alain Tascan as its new pdwellnt of games follotriumphg the decision to shift Facebook and EA vet Mike Verdu, previously Netflix’s vice pdwellnt of games, into a new role centered on “alterative innovation in game creation and growment.”
While Netflix’s other gaming operations remain intact and the streamer upgrasps its overall promisement to grotriumphg its games business, per insiders, this decision directs to asks seeing Netflix’s ambitions in PC and console gaming. Netflix has freed more than 100 mobile games so far, but it is unclear what AAA projects Team Blue was toiling on and what Netflix’s set ups are for moving forward in non-mobile games.
Meanwhile, Netflix has been signaling its success in making games based on its own IP with the promise it will churn out one new game in its “Netflix Stories” line per month, the postpodemandst being based on its famous teen drama “Outer Banks.” Other “Netflix Stories” mobile games have been freed based on “Emily in Paris,” “Virgin River” and “Love Is Blind,” and the streamer is erecting to the free of standalone mobile titles in the universes of “Squid Game” and Zack Snyder’s “Rebel Moon” franchise.
Game File was the first to alert the news that Netflix had shut down the Team Blue studio.
