Things have become a bit strange over at the developer of H1Z1, Daybreak Game Company.

The studio has denied that it has ties with investment firm Columbus Nova... despite the fact that when the company spun out from Sony Online Entertainment, said investment firm was the one backing them.

All this is because the US government has started freezing the assets Russian oligarchs due being accused to "destablising activities", such as allegedly tampering with the US election in 2016. It just so happens that one of these oligarchs' assets included none other than Columbus Nova.

“Daybreak Game Company has no affiliation with Columbus Nova. Jason Epstein, former member of Columbus Nova, is and has always been the primary owner and executive chairman of Daybreak Game Company (formerly Sony Online Entertainment) which he acquired from Sony in February 2015,” the studio said in a statement to MassivelyOP.

In a follow-up statement to the site said: “That distinction was never corrected in the past, so we are correcting that now.”

If all the above wasn't weird enough, PCGamesN reports that a user was banned from Wikipedia for trying to edit Daybreak's Wikipedia page. Their username? DaybreakPR. And the press release from 2015 announcing the the deal with Columbus Nova has been removed from its press site.

Um.

FURTHERMORE, Columbus Nova is still listed in the Daybreak Games Company privacy policy, per Twitter user @DkTanic.

We've reached out to Daybreak Game Company for comment.