Netflix is buying cozy sport developer Spry Fox

Netflix is buying Spry Fox, the indie developer of “cozy” video games like Cozy Grove and Alphabear, Netflix announced on Monday. The acquisition implies that Spry Fox will change into Netflix’s sixth in-house gaming studio.

For Spry Fox, the acquisition received’t imply any adjustments for now. The studio’s present video games will stay out there for obtain “in their current forms on their current platforms,” co-founder and CEO David Edery mentioned in a post on Spry Fox’s blog, and the studio is already engaged on making Cozy Grove 2 and “a larger, non-violent MMO.” Thanks to the acquisition, “we can stop stressing about how our games generate profit on our games and instead focus exclusively on making them as enjoyable and fulfilling to our players as possible,” Edery mentioned.

Netflix formally launched its cellular video games providing almost one yr in the past, letting subscribers play a group of Android and iOS titles for no extra cost. As a part of its earnings announcement this month, Netflix mentioned its assortment has 35 titles out there for subscribers and that there are 55 extra video games in improvement. While information signifies that the majority subscribers haven’t tried the games yet, Netflix’s dedication to extra video games, its acquisitions of studios like Spry Fox, and vocal curiosity in cloud gaming all counsel that the corporate is taking gaming significantly.