{"id":635822,"date":"2026-08-13T23:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635822\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T23:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:01:21","slug":"netflix-closes-unhinged-video-game-studio-night-school-moonloot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/635822\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Closes ‘Unhinged’ Video Game Studio Night School, Moonloot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tNetflix is shutting down two studios, including the developer behind the David Fincher and Zach Cregger-backed horror game, \u201cUnhinged,\u201d which released less than two months ago.<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tThe streaming service is closing \u201cUnhinged<\/a>\u201d maker Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, a Helsinki-based studio founded in 2022.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we\u2019re saying goodbye to today,\u201d a Netflix spokesperson told Variety Thursday. \u201cWe thank them for all their contributions to Netflix, and wish them the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThese new shutdowns are the latest in a series of moves that have whittled down Netflix\u2019s internal game business, which now consists of Next Games, which is based in Helsinki, as well as a gaming team that works with external developers.<\/p>\n

\n\tOver the past few years, Netflix has divested studios Spry Fox (which was sold back to its founders last December), Boss Fight (which was shutdown last October<\/a> after releasing a \u201cSquid Game\u201d mobile title for the streamer), and the AAA-focused Team Blue (which was shuttered in 2024).<\/p>\n

\n\tUnder Netflix president of games Alain Tascan, who joined in his role at the end of 2024, Netflix\u2019s gaming strategy is now focused on four key areas: kids (\u201cNetflix Playground\u201d), party (\u201cNetflix Minigolf\u201d), narrative (\u201cUnhinged\u201d) and mainstream (\u201cFIFA World Cup: Launch Edition\u201d). <\/p>\n

\n\tRecently, Netflix has been expanding into games played on TVs using a phone as a controller, like \u201cUnhinged\u201d and \u201cFIFA World Cup: Launch Edition.\u201d Sources tell Variety the most internal excitement in the division surrounds monumentum for cloud games and kids games.<\/p>\n

\n\tNews of the Night School Studio and Moonloot shutdowns was first reported by GameFile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Netflix is shutting down two studios, including the developer behind the David Fincher and Zach Cregger-backed horror game,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,82,268698],"class_list":["post-635822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology","tag-unhinged"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117090693482778584","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}