{
  "id": 808141,
  "title": "Five years after acquiring Oxenfree developer Night School Studio, Netflix are shutting them down",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/five-years-after-acquiring-oxenfree-developer-night-school-studio",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-13T20:29:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
    "slug": "rock-paper-shotgun",
    "url": "https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/five-years-after-acquiring-oxenfree-developer-night-school-studio-netflix-are-shutting-them-down"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "In 2021, in their bid to get more of a hold on the games industry after dominating film and television streaming, Netflix acquired Oxenfree and Afterparty developer Night School Studio, the first developer they had ever acquired. Now, five years later, the streaming giant is shuttering Night School Studio, as well as Moonloot, another developer they owned that was yet to put out a game. This…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "illustration": null,
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "PC Gamer",
        "title": "Netflix closes Oxenfree developer Night School, just a month after praising its new game as one of the company's 'most successful cloud game debuts'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/netflix-closes-oxenfree-developer-night-school-just-a-month-after",
        "published": "2026-08-13T20:27:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Polygon",
        "title": "Netflix closes more game studios as it pulls back on video games",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/netflix-closes-more-game-studios-as-it-pulls-back-on-video-games",
        "published": "2026-08-13T20:56:39.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Netflix is closing game studios Night School Studio, which it acquired in 2021, and Moonloot, and is also cutting jobs from its internal games team (Stephen Totilo/Game File)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/netflix-is-closing-game-studios-night-school-studio-which-it-acquired",
        "published": "2026-08-13T21:15:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "IGN",
        "title": "Night School Staff Speak Out After Netflix Shuts Down Developer Following 'Top Tier' Launch of Unhinged",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer",
        "published": "2026-08-13T22:43:14.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}