A new report claims CD Projekt Red had a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners game in development, created in partnership with WayForward. Before you get too excited though, it also appears that the game may have been scrapped after an early prototyping phase. 

According to a report from MP1st, a former WayForward developer’s portfolio referenced an unannounced CDPR R&D project titled “Gemini”, described as a Cyberpunk: Edgerunners game. The work took place between 2025 and 2026, suggesting the project never moved beyond early prototyping. The listing included an internal logo combining Edgerunners branding with the Gemini codename.

It is claimed that Gemini was envisioned as a “rollback‑driven” 2.5D brawler, aligning closely with WayForward’s experience on River City Girls. The developer’s notes mention rollback‑safe architecture and online transport integration, indicating that online multiplayer and rollback netcode were planned features. However, the portfolio does not clarify whether Gemini was greenlit, paused or cancelled.

While a small-scale Cyberpunk Edgerunners game may no longer be happening, fans do have Season 2 of the anime to look forward to later this year. CD Projekt Red is also still hard at work on Project Orion, the codename for the sequel to Cyberpunk 2077.

KitGuru Says: Gemini, if real, sounds like an interesting idea, although it is not exactly the type of game fans of Cyberpunk 2077 are going to be looking for. 

As a new studio founded by ex-Witcher Alumni, Rebel Wolves and Bandai Namco allowed us an intimate four hours with the studio’s inaugural title: The Blood of Dawnwalker. While players may have been initially concerned about being rushed with the story’s thirty-day limit, our experience proved that there’s more than enough content here to enjoy the adventure at your own pace. In The Blood of Dawnwalker, players take on the role of Coen, a perfectly normal human male with a single goal: to save his family from the clutches of an ancient vampire lord named Brencis. Our play session saw […]

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CD Projekt has announced plans to update its corporate name, bringing the parent company’s branding in line with its game development studios. For years, CD Projekt has operated as the umbrella organisation overseeing CD Projekt Red, but the company now intends to adopt the same branding at the corporate level.

As reported by VGC and confirmed through regulatory filings spotted by Bankier.pl, the change is intended to “ensure consistency” across the company’s public‑facing brands. CD Projekt Red has long been the more recognisable name globally thanks to the success of The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077, while CD Projekt has primarily existed as the formal parent entity.

The update will not affect the structure of the company’s development teams or GOG, which will continue operating with no changes to branding. The change is expected to be formalised following shareholder approval.

CD Projekt has a big year ahead, with Cyberpunk Edgerunners 2 set to come out, which should bring another boost in sales for Cyberpunk 2077. On top of that, the company has a new expansion for The Witcher 3, giving us all something to play while we wait on The Witcher 4 to be finished.

KitGuru Says: CD Projekt Red is already the name most players associate with the studio, so this shift makes sense from a branding perspective. What do you think of the change?

While CD Projekt Red may have rebuilt much of its reputation with the turnaround of Cyberpunk 2077 in 2022 and 2023, the studio's co-CEO, Michał Nowakowski, believes there is still more work to do to restore the studio's reputation.

Speaking with Knowledge, a video games industry newsletter published by Edge, joint CEO Michał Nowakowski reflected on the years following Cyberpunk’s troubled launch, calling the period “heartbreaking” after building up such a solid reputation amongst gamers with The Witcher 2 and The Witcher 3. While many fans say CDPR redeemed themselves with Cyberpunk 2077's Phantom Liberty expansion in 2023, Nowakowski is unconvinced, saying: “I'm not 100 percent convinced we went through the full redemption arc”.

Nowakowski believes that CDPR “lost the faith of some people indefinitely”, but added that he hopes the studio can make it up to those people with The Witcher 4 and whatever comes after that.

The Witcher 4 has been in development for a few years already and has quickly accelerated towards full production. However, the game is not expected to release until 2028. At the same time, CD Projekt Red also has another studio based in the US working on Cyberpunk 2. The Witcher 4 team will immediately move from The Witcher 4 to a Witcher 5 as part of a new trilogy focused on Ciri rather than Geralt.

KitGuru Says: As incredible as Cyberpunk 2077 is now, the first two hours or so of the game still remain largely the same today as they did in 2020. To me, that portion of the game has always been the most disappointing, but everything that comes after that is some of CDPR's best-ever work.

Following the release of Cyberpunk 2077, studio CD Projekt Red offered fans insight into their next decade worth of developments, revealing that they plan to release a Witcher remake, a new Witcher trilogy and a sequel to Cyberpunk 2077. Given their schedule, it makes sense that according to CDPR, there are no plans for The Witcher 4 to receive any expansions in the vein of Hearts of Stone / Blood and Wine.

During the company’s recent earnings call (as transcribed by GamesRadar), the joint CEO for CDPR – Michał Nowakowski – was asked whether future Witcher titles would receive any expansions a-la The Witcher 3, stating:

“Given the very ambitious project pipeline, does the company see room for developing expansions for the new Witcher saga?” to which Nowakowski responded:

“As you mentioned in the question, the plans are pretty ambitious. Specifically, it's to release three Witcher games within a six-year period. It would be difficult, to be very honest, for us to add an expansion to the upcoming trilogy. This is where we are here and now with this particular issue.”

While this does not mean that the games won’t see any post-launch support, don’t expect any major DLCs or expansions moving forward.

That said, given that they hope to release an entire trilogy in the span of 6 years, fans shouldn’t be hurting for more Witcher any time soon – especially with The Witcher 3’s Song of the Past arriving next year.

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11 years ago The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt released, quickly becoming one of the most celebrated games of all time while catapulting studio CD Projekt Red to new heights. A decade later and the open world RPG continues to be more popular than ever. Following the announcement that the game is set to receive a surprise 3rd expansion next year, CDPR have confirmed that The Witcher 3 has officially sold over 65 million copies.

Making the announcement as part of the studio’s Q1 2026 Earnings report, CDPR officially confirmed that since its release back in 2015, The Witcher 3 has sold over 65 million copies.

This puts it as one of the best selling games of all time, currently sitting between the original Super Mario Bros. (58 million) and Terraria (70 million copies sold) in 8th place.

For context, back in January of this year CDPR confirmed that TW3 had sold a total of 60 million copies, meaning a further 5 million were sold in the past 4 or so months alone.

Given that we’re set to receive a new major expansion over a decade on from Blood and Wine, it will be interesting to see how sales for the title continue to track over the next year in the lead-up to ‘Songs of the Past’s release.

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Following months of rumors, The Witcher 3 Songs of the Past expansion was officially announced yesterday. Set for release in 2027, 12 years after the launch of the base game, the new expansion will see players accompany Geralt of Rivia in yet another adventure. While details are scarce at the moment, and will only come in late Summer, some eagle-eyed fans took a good look at the expansion's key art, proving that it hides more information behind some apparently small details. With a new image shared on the series' official subreddit, user KvasirTheOld summarized some interesting findings regarding the sword […]

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Over the past few months, we have been hearing rumours that CD Projekt Red is secretly working on a third expansion for The Witcher 3, more than a decade after the game's initial launch. Today, CDPR confirmed exactly that, however, the new expansion, titled ‘Songs of the Past', is still quite some ways off from release.

Sitting at over 60 million copies sold, The Witcher 3 is one of the most critically acclaimed and highest-selling RPGs of all time. Now, almost a decade on from the release of the game's original expansions, CD Projekt Red has a third new story arc on the way, helping to bridge the gap while CDPR gets The Witcher 4 ready.

Unfortunately, we do not yet know much about the Songs of the Past expansion. All we know for now is that we will once again be playing as Geralt, setting off on a “brand new adventure”, developed in collaboration with Fool's Theory. More details about the expansion are expected to drop during ‘late Summer'.

While there is not a final release date yet, CD Projekt Red says the expansion will only be coming to current-gen platforms, including PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and it will release sometime in 2027.

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KitGuru Says: It is extremely rare to see a single-player games studio still supporting their titles this long after launch. Will you be jumping back into The Witcher 3 for the new expansion when it arrives?

Despite stating previously that they had no plans to support the PlayStation 5 Pro with a bespoke update, CD Projekt Red did ultimately reveal that Cyberpunk 2077 on Sony’s higher-end console would be getting a welcome update in the future. Well, the future is now, with the team fully detailing all of the enhancements arriving today for Pro owners – including multiple forms of ray-tracing.

Taking to the PlayStation Blog to detail the update, CDPR’s Kuba Knapik confirmed that the highly-anticipated PS5 Pro update is finally coming to Cyberpunk 2077 today. A full breakdown of all the various tweaks and specificities can be found HERE, but some of the most notable enhancements include:

• PSSR (PlayStation Spectral Super Resolution) support
• BVH8 (8-way Bounding Volume Hierarchy) support allowing for:
  • Ray-traced lighting
  • Ray-traced shadows
  • Ray-traced reflections
• 3 PS5 Pro graphics modes:
  • Ray Tracing Pro (RT reflections; AO; skylight; shadows and emissive lighting at 40fps)
  • Performance Mode (up to 90fps without RT features)
  • Ray Tracing Mode (select RT features at 60fps)

Curiously, CDPR did not make any mention of target resolutions, aside from the confirmation of “4K visuals”. Of course, seeing as how the Pro version makes use of PSSR, the final result is able to look perceptively sharp while technically running at lower resolutions. Regardless, this latest update is a massive one for PS5 Pro owners.

Given just how impactful ray-tracing has been for Cyberpunk and the world of Night City, bringing over a majority of these features to the Pro version should make for an immediately noticeable increase in visual fidelity and grounded realism.

It’s been a long time coming, but the PS5 Pro update for Cyberpunk 2077 seems to have been worth the wait.

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Over the years, CD Projekt have had a relatively close relationship with Kickstarter, having successfully released various Witcher and Cyberpunk-related projects through the crowdfunding platform. Even so, their latest efforts have proven to be record-breaking, with the recently-launched Cyberpunk TCG becoming the “Most Funded Game in Crowdfunding History.”

With a total of £12.7 million pledged (and counting) across nearly 25 thousand backers, The Cyberpunk Trading Card Game is officially the most-funded game in Kickstarter history (and the biggest tabletop game in crowdfunding history).

Being created by WeirdCo (and licensed by CDPR), the ever-growing project is managing to hit multiple fronts, said to be “designed for trading card players, avid collectors, and fans of the Cyberpunk franchise alike.”

As with many of CDPR’s previous Kickstarter projects, the Cyberpunk TCG appears to be well thought out and of a high quality. Of course, we will have to wait and see how the game actually performs when it is shipped out (estimated to be December 2026), but regardless, the Cyberpunk TCG is already a certified success financially.

Full details on the project, its various tiers and rewards can be found HERE.

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