A brand new report from Recreation File claims that Netflix has shut down its “Group Blue” studio, the Southern Californian-based workforce that was meant to be the triple-A studio in Netflix’s sport growth ambitions.
Now, in lower than two years because the studio was opened it’s being shuttered, and a few heavy-duty expertise is being left with no job.
Most of Netflix’s video games have been ones that you may nonetheless play in your cellphone, even when they’ve had console and/or PC launch. This studio was seemingly meant for bigger releases, a path additional signaled by the builders it was buying.
Builders like Joesph Staten, who was a artistic lead for Bungie on the unique Halo video games and Future earlier than he joined Netflix.
Then there’s additionally Raf Grassetti, who spent the higher a part of a decade as an artwork director for Sony Santa Monica Studio’s well-known God Of Conflict franchise. Grassetti was even the studio’s lead artwork director by the point he determined to go away.
Clearly, Netflix determined to go in a special path, and its unlucky we’ll by no means get to see what “Group Blue” would possibly’ve made.
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