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The original founders of Bossfight Entertainment, a studio that was acquired and later shut down by Netflix, are relaunching the company as Bossfight.<\/span><\/p>\n Announced yesterday, the new studio is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Leadership includes CEO David Rippy, chief product officer Bill Jackson, and COO Scott Winsett.<\/span><\/p>\n “This is about bringing back the team that built Bossfight,” Rippy said in the announcement. “We’ve created and scaled games side-by-side for well over a decade. Reuniting that leadership team under the Bossfight name\u2014and returning to the principles that have guided us from the beginning\u2014is something we’re incredibly excited about.”<\/span><\/p>\n Netflix <\/span>acquired Bossfight Entertainment back in 2022<\/a><\/span>, months after the streaming giant acquired <\/span>Oxenfree<\/span><\/span> developer Night School Studio and Finnish studio Next Games, the latter of which cost $72 million.<\/span><\/p>\n Three years later, and after launching <\/span>Squid Game: Unleashed<\/span><\/span>, which hit #1 in 26 countries, <\/span>Netflix shut down the studio<\/a><\/span> in October of last year. At the time, Rippy described the situation as “rough.”<\/span><\/p>\n