CD Projekt has confirmed that improvement on the brand new The Witcher sport is ramping up, with over 200 builders now tasked with engaged on the franchise’s subsequent mainline entry. The announcement comes as CD Projekt continues to place the ending touches on Cyberpunk 2077’s upcoming Phantom Liberty DLC forward of its September 26 launch.
CD Projekt confirms ‘virtually 260’ builders are presently engaged on the following mainline The Witcher sport
As first reported by VGC, CD Projekt has shared new particulars about improvement on the following mainline The Witcher sport as a part of a latest earnings name. In keeping with CD Projekt CEO Adam Kiciński, the event group for the long-awaited subsequent entry in The Witcher franchise, codenamed Polaris, has grown to almost 260 builders. Whereas a lot of CD Projekt’s workers is presently engaged on Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC, Kiciński states that lots of these builders will ultimately make their strategy to the Witcher group.
CD Projekt first teased the thought of a brand new The Witcher sport in 2020 within the leadup to Cyberpunk 2077’s finally ill-fated launch, stating on the time that it will not be The Witcher 4. Along with creating a brand new mainline entry in its fashionable fantasy franchise CD Projekt additionally has a multiplayer spin-off within the works, although it faces an unsure future. Developed by The Molasses Flood, The Witcher’s multiplayer spin-off was rumored to have been canceled after CD Projekt introduced in March that it will “re-evaluate” the title following disappointment inside the corporate over the path of the undertaking.
Whereas followers of The Witcher franchise will certainly be glad to listen to that work on the following mainline sport continues in earnest, not each developer on the Polish writer could have the prospect to affix the Polaris group. Earlier this 12 months, it was introduced that 100 layoffs at CD Projekt Purple, the corporate’s improvement arm, are anticipated by QA 2024. The drastic cutback in staffing, representing roughly 9% of CD Projekt Purple’s total group, got here as mass layoffs swept throughout the gaming business all through 2023.
