# Spry Fox

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Video games in 2023: Acquisitions, layoffs, unions

This was a year of upheaval in video games. The industry has shapeshifted over the past 12 months, and it’s not all due to Microsoft’s lengthy acquisition of Activision, Blizzard and King. While Xbox executives were defending the legality of a $69 billion deal that would create the third-largest ...

Mastering Cozy Game Design with Spry Fox' CCO Daniel Cook

Recently hitting the milestone of 30 years working in game design, Spry Fox Chief Creative Officer Daniel Cook has long been a leading voice in the game industry. To celebrate his long and distinguished career-spanning games like Realm of the Mad God, Triple Town, Alphabear, and Cozy Grove. MIA ...

Netflix’s cozy take on Animal Crossing hits Android and iOS in June

Netflix’s mobile gaming lineup will soon have one more entry. Cozy Grove: Camp Spirit, the sequel to the 2021 Animal Crossing-esque Cozy Grove, will arrive on Android and iOS on June 25. The Cozy Grove sequel is the first game from developer Spry Fox since Netflix bought the studio in 2022. In ...

Netflix hires former Epic Games exec as new President of Games

Netflix has landed a notable new leader for its rapidly-expanding gaming endeavors. Variety reported that the streaming company has hired Alain Tascan as its new president of games. Before joining Netflix, Tascan was executive vice president for game development at a little studio you may have h ...

The Morning After: Netflix’s new gaming boss is a former Epic Games exec

Netflix has hired Alain Tascan as its new president of games. Before joining Netflix, Tascan was executive vice president for Epic Games and oversaw first-party development for some of the company’s (and gaming’s) most successful titles, like Fortnite, Rocket League and Fall Guys. Since launchi ...

Oh no, it's me! (QR 094)

Kris is out this week because it was recorded when she was heading off for Women's Week. But fret not! Tara is joined by none other than Becks, reader and listener extraordinaire, and Director of Outreach for GCLS. They talk books, cozy games, politics, and so much more. Official Recommendatio ...

Ep 16: Short Little Goblin Representation (Carimara)

Emmi and Annie battle motion sickness to answer a ghost’s questions three.  Chapters:  (00:30) News  (06:45) State of Silksong  (10:32) Carimara Discussion  (01:08:22) Upcoming Games  News Links:  Netflix to buy Warner Bros. for $82.7 billion (GamesIndustry.biz, Dec. 5)  Netflix sells studio S ...

Art, Honestly, with Brian Handy

Brian Handy stops by to discuss Wild Honesty, his game of, well, wild honesty. Just how do you design an experience of radical openness and ever-expanding intimacy? How do you then adapt that networked play, with all its extra layers of isolation and all the kinds of human connection it lack by ...

Two Bucks is Free (Except When It's Not)

This week, Lotus, Niki, and John set out to dissect the price sensitivity opus laid out by Peak's devs in an interview with Stephen Totilo. Is eight bucks really five bucks? This and much more, including: AGDQ's haul and interesting future Hytale's long path to Early Access Meta's VR investment ...

Episode 8: Guest! Emily Taylor

Tracy and Kel chat with the amazing Emily Taylor, who's worked on everything from EverQuest II, to Dragon Age to Spry Fox' Spirit Crossing (forthcoming; check it out at https://playspiritcrossing.com/). Our 11.5 listeners are in for a real treat!