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We’ve all been hyperfocused on Rockstar and the recent GTA VI gameplay leak lately. However, there’s big news coming at us from all sides this week. CD Projekt Red is the focus of our attention today, and the Warsaw-based studio has made an announcement that might overshadow Rockstar for weeks to come. CD Projekt Red has announced no less than five new projects coming our way within the next few years, one of which includes The Witcher 4 and the news saga.

The announcements came during a presentation delivered by the Warsaw-based studio yesterday. The purpose of the presentation was to highlight future plans, but the studio focused on its recent successes at the onset. CD Projekt Red started by delivering an update on how much the company has grown since the first quarter of 2022, stating that more than 65 million copies of the Witcher trilogy were sold during this time.

It added that Cyberpunk 2077 had simultaneously seen over 20 million copies sold worldwide. The company then introduced its plans to keep the upward momentum going with three new games in The Witcher franchise. The games were unveiled under the working titles Project Polaris, Sirius, and Canis Majoris. The studio also announced a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077 under the working title Project Orion. 

Project Polaris will be the jump-off point for the new Witcher trilogy, and the studio has said that it will pick up where we left off with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. In contrast, Project Sirius has been described as an ‘innovative take on The Witcher universe telling an unforgettable story for existing Witcher fans and new audiences.’ Project Canis Majoris brings even more variation into the new trilogy and is in development by a third-party studio. Worry not, however; the development is being steered by ex-Witcher veterans. CD Projekt Red has stated that all three of these projects are expected to release within the space of six years. 

The previously mentioned Project Orion is set to be a sequel for Cyberpunk 2077, capitalizing on the success of the franchise’s current iteration. Cyberpunk 2077 started off strong but experienced a wane in popularity until around two weeks ago. The resurgence of the game’s popularity coincides with the release of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, a new anime on Netflix. The studio hopes to ‘prove the full power of the Cyberpunk universe’ with the next iteration of the game. 

CD Projekt Red could have left it at that, but it didn’t. Instead, it announced a brand-new IP under the working title Project Hader. The studio has confirmed that the new project is completely separate from Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher. However, the new title will introduce multiplayer game modes to CD Projekt Red’s single-player games going forward. This means that Project Hader is likely the most significant announcement as it’s set to change the way that CD Project Red approaches its titles from here on out. 

I don’t want to brag, but we knew this was coming, especially concerning The Witcher franchise. Shaun M Jooste posted his thoughts early in September, and now that the announcement is official, it’s fun to go back and see how we did with our predictions of the future of The Witcher 4 saga.

If there’s one company I’d like to have in my back pocket as far as interviews go, it’s CD Projekt Red. In March, the company indicated that it was using Unreal Engine 5 to create a new game in The Witcher series. From what I’ve read so far, it looks like there will be more than one title in the second saga.

Adam Kiciński is joint CEO and president of CD Projekt Red. When dealing with a recent earnings call, he mentioned that there are plans to have more than one The Witcher game in the next saga. The first saga had three games, so it feels only right that we should see several titles in the following one.

The company recently partnered with Epic Games with new technological plans for the upcoming The Witcher saga. With the research phase complete, CD Projekt Red is now moving towards pre-production. That has me all excited for the next game, but it will probably be a few years before we see it appear. 

With The Witcher now an official Netflix series, the brand is becoming increasingly popular. I remember how long the second and third games took to complete. Based on that alone, I’m sure The Witcher 4 will be even more epic with more places to explore. Thankfully, the fantasy genre is so vast, that there’s so much they can still do with the series.

I’m curious to see how many more lands and creatures they can create for The Witcher Saga 2. I fall in love with bestiaries, so it will be exciting to see how many more they add to the current list. Also, we’re probably going to see more quests than ever before with stunning character developments over the entire new series.

Ok, I’m getting overexcited. The last time I felt this way was when Diablo IV had new updates and they discussed some of the new seasonal features in the upcoming game. I think I’ll go bury my head in my novels and return to creating worlds of my own.