Updated:

Oct 4, 2022 4:09 pm

Posted:

Oct 4, 2022 3:32 pm

CD Projekt Red has announced the codenames and little descriptions for 5 caller games, including 3 Witcher games, a caller Cyberpunk, and a marque caller IP.

Revealed connected Twitter, it marks a large adjacent measurement for the developer successful aggregate respects – from processing its ain IP from scratch, to processing aggregate 'full-size' games astatine 1 time. In a separate release, the institution says it is besides "adding multiplayer to the bulk of aboriginal projects." This besides marks the archetypal clip that we've learned the caller Witcher trilogy volition not beryllium the lone caller games acceptable successful that universe.

The 5 games are:

• Orion - "A codename for our adjacent Cyberpunk game, which volition instrumentality the Cyberpunk franchise further and proceed harnessing the imaginable of this acheronian aboriginal universe." Orion volition beryllium developed by a marque caller CD Projekt workplace acceptable up successful the US.
• Polaris - "A codename for the adjacent installment successful The Witcher bid of games, which we precocious announced was successful pre-production. It is the opening of a caller saga: we purpose to merchandise 2 much Witcher games aft Polaris, creating a caller AAA RPG trilogy." The afloat trilogy is intended to beryllium released "in a six-year period".
• Canis Majoris - "A full-fledged Witcher game, abstracted to the caller Witcher saga starting with Polaris. It volition beryllium developed by an outer workplace headed by experienced developers who person worked connected past Witcher games." It's not presently wide which developer is moving connected this project.
• Sirius - "A codename for the crippled developed by [The Molasses Flood], acceptable successful The Witcher beingness and created with enactment from CDPR. It volition disagree from our past productions, offering multiplayer gameplay connected apical of a single-player acquisition including a run with quests and a story."
• Hadar - "A codename for a third, wholly chiseled IP, created from scratch wrong CDPR. The task is successful the earliest stages of the originative process, which means we are not processing immoderate crippled yet, but moving exclusively connected the instauration for this caller setting."

Orion is simply a codename for our adjacent Cyberpunk game, which volition instrumentality the Cyberpunk franchise further and proceed harnessing the imaginable of this acheronian aboriginal universe. pic.twitter.com/JoVbCf6jYZ

Canis Majoris is possibly the astir intriguingly antithetic task for CD Projekt among the list. Developed externally by a presently chartless developer, the strategy announcement explains, "This is the archetypal specified merchandise being developed extracurricular of the Group. However, this does not connote that its prime volition lag down our in-house productions. From the technological standpoint it volition beryllium based connected Unreal Engine 5, on with the toolset created for Polaris. Expect further announcements soon."

Canis Majoris marks what seems to beryllium a recently unfastened CD Projekt, which is consenting to enactment with partners connected some games and different media aft the occurrence of Netflix's Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. "Our extremity is to enactment with experienced partners who tin conscionable our prime requirements and present worthwhile experiences for our fans," said CFO Michał Nowakowski. "We are doing this to make new, breathtaking ways of interacting with our brands, and besides to alteration our interior teams to absorption connected what drives america arsenic a company: processing revolutionary role-playing games."

Details connected the caller IP, Hadar, are understandably scant but Nowakowski added, "We started toying with the thought respective years ago. Early-stage conceptual enactment commenced successful 2021, and – for the archetypal clip successful our past – the IP is being incubated wholly wrong CD Projekt Red. It is important to recognize that close present we are inactive moving connected basal concepts and laying the groundwork for this caller franchise."

The quality comes aft CD Projekt announced it would begin processing Witcher and Cyberpunk games simultaneously, portion besides purchasing The Molasses Flood to enactment connected games successful its universes. Its caller North American workplace volition incorporated the Vancouver workplace it already bought.

As portion of the glut of announcements, we besides learned that co-CEO Adam Kiciński would beryllium leaving his role to use to beryllium Chairman of the company.

Joe Skrebels is IGN's Executive Editor of News. Follow him connected Twitter. Have a extremity for us? Want to sermon a imaginable story? Please nonstop an email to newstips@ign.com.