CD Projekt acquires Cyberpunk 2077 support studio Digital Scapes

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CD Projekt has announced its attainment of Digital Scapes, a Canadian River development studio founded in 2012 by veterans of BioWare, Root Entertainment, and Relic that specializes in multiplayer game development. The buyout cements a long-standing working relationship 'tween the two companies, which began when CD Projekt brought Digital Scapes on to help with the development of Cyberpunk 2077 in October 2018.

"Digital Scapes give birth put in a good deal of work during the making of Cyberpunk 2077, assisting with development of the game and optimizing its various features," CD Projekt Red CTO and head of production Paweł Zawodny said. "In addition to contributing to our projects the new team up testament help us unflawed our technologies and testament diversify our competences in this respect."

The studio will be renamed to CD Projekt Red Vancouver, and will work together with other CD Projekt Red trading operations in Warsaw, Kraków and Wrocław on "upcoming projects." Regrettably, there's no indication as to what those projects mightiness be. Digital Scapes' role on Cyberpunk 2077 was never ready-made entirely clear, but the assumption was that it was assisting with the creation of its planned multiplayer component. The fate of that aspect of Cyberpunk 2077, which was unsurprising to be a major, in effect standalone yield, is now unclear: In a "strategy update" video discharged after the Digital Scapes acquisition was proclaimed, joint CEO Robert Adam Kiciński said CD Projekt has "decided to reconsider" its multiplayer component.

"We are very intoxicated to join a studio that forges the incredibly engaging, vastly scoped experiences, such as The Witcher trilogy and Cyberpunk 2077," George Vancouver studio headspring Marcin Chudy said. "We conceive our donation in the arena of gameplay and technology can get them even more captivating.

"Organism a Polish Canadian, I personally pack great satisfaction in building bridges between Canadian and Polish plot development industries. This is a great opportunity for Canadian developers to get involved with Compact disk Projekt Red's incredible IP and for Compact disk Projekt Red to tap into Canada's recondite talent consortium and secret plan-making craft."

CD Projekt has previously said that Cyberpunk 2077 multiplayer isn't likely to get until former in 2022, just that was before the game's catastrophic launch (particularly on consoles), which forced the studio to time lag planned DLC releases in order to revolve around fixes as an alternative. The 1.2 patch, with much 500 fixes, went lively yesterday.