Netflix to acquire Spry Fox - Gematsu

Netflix volition get Cozy Grove developer Spry Fox, which volition go its sixth in-house games studio, the institution announced.

Spry Fox is presently processing Cozy Grove 2 and a inactive unannounced “larger, non-violent [massively multiplayer online game].” It besides announced a publishing woody with Epic Games successful October 2021 for a caller rubric utilizing Unreal Engine, Epic Online Services, and Epic Account Services, which is apt for the massively multiplayer online game.

Get the afloat connection from Spry Fox connected the acquisition below.

Not going to hide the lede: It’s our large pleasance to denote that Spry Fox is joining Netflix, wherever we volition go the sixth in-house games studio!

What does this mean for Spry Fox? It means:

• We tin proceed making the games that we were already making and wanted to make, but with much enactment and resources to marque those games amended and bring them to much radical astir the world.
• We tin halt stressing astir however our games make nett connected our games and alternatively absorption exclusively connected making them arsenic enjoyable and fulfilling to our players arsenic possible.
• We tin collaborate with different originative radical wrong Netflix to hopefully get amended astatine what we bash and however we bash it.

And what does this mean for our existing games?

They’ll stay downloadable and disposable successful their existent forms connected their existent platforms. What astir improvement efforts connected caller games? Everyone astatine Spry Fox was already focused connected making Cozy Grove 2 arsenic good arsenic a larger, non-violent MMO that we inactive haven’t revealed overmuch astir publicly, and that is inactive the case. So there’s nary alteration successful our existent improvement efforts.

Real talk: we’ve been astatine this for astir 13 years. It’s been exhilarating, humbling, endlessly interesting, and often challenging. We’ve ever known that supra each else, we wanted our games to bring radical happiness. But successful different ways, it feels similar we lone precocious figured retired what “we privation to beryllium erstwhile we turn up.” What has go wide implicit the people of each of our adventures: We are a workplace that builds original, world-class cozy games. Especially games that bring radical together. And we are assured that Netflix is going to assistance america bash that.

Thank you to everyone—our fans, our partners, and particularly each azygous 1 of our past and contiguous squad members—who helped america scope this milestone. We stay ever grateful.

Love,
All the Spry Foxes