CD Projekt Red has announced a “long-term partnership” with a new Canadian studio called Digital Scapes, which I’d never heard of before now. But it’s made up of developers from well-known studios: BioWare, Relic and Radical.

The long-term partnership begins with Cyberpunk 2077. “The Canadian partner studio will closely cooperate with CD Projekt Red on creating and optimising technological solutions for use in the development of Cyberpunk 2077,” the press release said.

Exactly what those technical solutions are, we don’t know, but Digital Scapes’ previous work may provide a clue. The studio built the PvP invasion mode for Techland’s Dying Light, Digital Scapes’ LinkedIn blurb says, as well as “Dying Light’s cloud-based online service which allows developers to collect telemetry data and tune the game in real-time”.

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Source: Eurogamer Cyberpunk 2077 enlists help of studio which built Dying Light PvP