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  "id": 816234,
  "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",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-13T22:43:14.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IGN",
    "slug": "ign",
    "url": "https://www.ign.com/articles/night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Netflix is shuttering its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, best known for side-scrolling psychological thrillers Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals.",
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      {
        "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": "Rock Paper Shotgun",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-08-13T20:29:25.000Z"
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      {
        "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"
      }
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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."
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