CD Projekt RED announced new CyberPunk and Witcher Games
CD Projekt Red, the makers of the infamous “Cyberpunk 2077” and the very popular Witcher video game series, on Tuesday made a string of announcements about their upcoming CyberPunk and Witcher video game titles.
Co-founder of CD Projekt Red, Marcin Iwinski also announced that he would step down from his role as joint CEO and submit his candidacy for chairman of CD Projekt’s supervisory board via Twitter.
The company revealed on Twitter a new code name for the next CyberPunk game, which goes by the name Orian. Besides that, Three Witcher projects were also announced: Polaris, the start of a new trilogy for the franchise; Canis Majoris, which will be separate from Polaris but set in the same universe and developed by an external studio; and multiplayer title Sirius from developer Molasses Flood. A fourth project, Hadar, is a new IP developed in-house by CD Projekt RED.
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According to sources, the developers also have plans to release an extended version of “Cyberpunk 2077,” titled “Phantom Liberty,” next year.
CD Projekt described its strategy in greater detail in a video on its YouTube channel.
In the above video, the Chief Financial Officer of CD Projekt, Piotr Nielubowicz explained that the company has been parallaly developing two AAA projects in and also stated that simultaneaosly working on several projects is “crucial to our future growth.” He also revealed that the development studio of CD Projekt , CD Projekt RED, will be using the Unreal Engine even more extensively, replacing the in-house REDengine the company has used since “The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings.”
“A key strategy decision was forming a long-term partnership with Epic Games,” Nielubowicz said. “Unreal engine will be the technology which we will build up on to deliver our creative vision, CD Projekt RED’s unique style and exceptional quality in open world storytelling.”
To bolster CD Projekt’s scope, the company cited the acquisitions of North American developers CD Projekt Vancouver (formerly known as Digital Scapes) and Molasses Flood in Boston. There have also been two new appointments to CD Projekt’s board: Chief Technology Officer and head of production Pawel Zawodny and Chief Marketing Officer and head of franchise development Jeremiah Cohn.