Virtuos has continued its world enlargement with the opening of Calypte, a brand new co-development studio in North America.

The work-for-hire firm, which has labored on main franchises like Call of Duty and Assassin’s Creed, mentioned Calypte can be its first full-service studio in North America. The nascent outfit will cowl all features of sport manufacturing together with artwork, design, and engineering.

According to Virtuos, Calypte will help versatile working — which implies workers can be inspired to work from anyplace, be it their house, in-office, or a mixture of each — and has been established to assist sate the “rising client demand for high-quality stay content material.”

“Based within the Bay Area, Calypte’s proximity to a significant sport improvement hub enhances collaboration between Virtuos and its companions by means of stronger alignment on venture necessities and shorter turnaround time,” reads a press launch. “Leveraging Virtuos’ established distributed improvement mannequin, scale, and experience, companions can be supplied round the clock help to ship larger video games in quicker iterations.”

Calypte can be led by studio director Kirsten Kennedy, who has beforehand labored on franchises together with Sid Meier’s Civilization and Grand Theft Auto throughout a close to two-decade lengthy profession in improvement and publishing manufacturing.

The formation of Calypte is Virtuos’ fourth enlargement in 2022, with the corporate having already bought Kyiv-based Volmi earlier than buying Singapore artwork studio Glass Egg and launching Virtuos Kuala Lumpur.

Those strikes got here after the corporate secured $150 million in funding in September 2021 to broaden its present studios and pursue acquisitions.