{"id":12893,"date":"2026-08-14T01:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T22:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/?p=12893"},"modified":"2026-08-14T03:25:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T23:55:01","slug":"night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/2026\/08\/14\/night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged\/","title":{"rendered":"Night School Staff Speak Out After Netflix Shuts Down Developer Following &#8216;Top Tier&#8217; Launch of Unhinged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Netflix is shuttering its Los Angeles-based game studio Night School, best known for side-scrolling psychological thrillers Oxenfree and Oxenfree 2: Lost Signals.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">The streamer is also shutting down Moonloot, its game studio based in Helsinki, Finland, which has not yet released any titles but was developing an unannounced life-sim project. <\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Speaking with GameFile, a Netflix spokesperson confirmed the company still intends to release games on its platform, saying this latest move was an effort to streamline these efforts.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cWe see an opportunity to be more focused in our execution, so we are making organizational changes to the business to match those priorities,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWe are incredibly grateful to the talented colleagues we\u2019re saying goodbye to today. We thank them for all their contributions to Netflix, and wish them the best. Games continue to be an opportunity for us to expand the variety of entertainment we offer Netflix members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span data-cy=\"slideshow-view-trigger\"><\/p>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-preview\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 slideshow-preview\">\n<h3 class=\"title5 jsx-62124236 jsx-1085005187\" data-cy=\"slideshow-preview-title\">Screens  &#8211;  Oxenfree<\/h3>\n<div data-cy=\"slideshow-images-container\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 images-container\"><button type=\"button\" data-cy=\"hero-image\" aria-label=\"Open Slideshow\" class=\"jsx-1711207865 hero-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt aria-hidden=\"true\" role=\"presentation\" class=\"progressive-image jsx-2896921488 image aspect-ratio aspect-ratio-16-9 jsx-2605834259 jsx-2338608387 hover-opacity\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged.gif\" data-cy=\"progressive-image\"><span class=\"button-text jsx-729543028 button button--primary jsx-3027214138 jsx-4266531355 row-pagination-button next contained centered round large\" data-cy=\"paginate next\" title=\"Open Slideshow\"><span class=\"ign-icon right-chevron jsx-2750866048 jsx-2919720488\" role=\"presentation\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-cy=\"right-chevron\"><\/span><\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">This news comes just after Night School released Unhinged, a first-person, narrative-driven horror game created in collaboration with Weapons director Zach Cregger, on June 30. Starring names like Sadie Sink and Zo\u00eb Kravitz, it stood out as a unique offering in the current gaming landscape, which reviewers described as a \u201cfun and scary choose-your-own-adventure\u201d romp.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">A former member of Night School staff spoke about the closure on LinkedIn, writing, &#8220;Despite directing Unhinged and shipping it 6 weeks ago to millions of excited, satisfied players, it looks like I&#8217;m back on the market (along with the rest of Night School Studio)! &#8230;I&#8217;m so proud of what we accomplished, and millions of people agree that we made a great product! Onward to the next exciting thing!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">These are the latest game studio closures from Netflix after the streamer shut down Team Blue in 2024. Netflix founded the developer in 2022, and it closed without releasing any games. It also closed Boss Fight Entertainment in 2025 after acquiring it in 2022, releasing several games within that timeframe. At the time, Netflix described Boss Fight\u2019s closure as part of a \u201cless-is-more strategy on a few identified verticals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">Despite these most recent closures, Netflix has had positive things to say about its foray into the gaming space, with co-CEO Greg Peters saying Unhinged became one of its \u201cmost successful cloud game debuts\u201d that yielded \u201creally solid numbers that put it in the top tier of game performance for us\u201d in a July 2026 investor call.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\">\u201cWe&#8217;re scratching the surface in terms of what we think the total potential of the space offers for us. You&#8217;re going to see us continue to calibrate and refine our level of investment here, which is still very small relative to our overall content spend based on demonstrated performance based on what is working for our members and what&#8217;s delivering returns to our business,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p data-cy=\"paragraph\" class=\"paragraph jsx-2269604527\"><em>Virginia (she\/her) is IGN\u2019s News Editor. With ten years of experience reporting on games and entertainment, she\u2019s got a storied background in the fighting game community, influencer news, and viral online trends. Find her on Twitter at <\/em>@TheeMissGlaze<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/night-school-staff-speak-out-after-netflix-shuts-down-developer-following-top-tier-launch-of-unhinged.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-12893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-49","tag-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12895,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12893\/revisions\/12895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imdbnews.ir\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}