The Blood of Dawnwalker appears to already be the next big thing in the RPG space, with the non-linear dark fantasy title from ex-CDPR devs at Rebel Wolves arriving to high praise and equally high sales. Less than a week on from the game’s official launch, Rebel Wolves are already hiring for its sequel.

Marking the debut title from new studio Rebel Wolves, The Blood of Dawnwalker has already made its presence well known; with the action-RPG being praised in particular for its narrative and writing while selling over 1 million copies in 48 hours.

Capitalising on the game’s success, The Blood of Dawnwalker’s narrative director Jakub Szamalek took to LinkedIn to announce that work is already underway on a sequel, posting:

“Hey writers! Me again. The Blood of Dawnwalker released to critical acclaim and sold over one million copies in the opening weekend. But! We're not resting on our laurels – no, siree! We're already thinking about (sic) comes next.”

Szamalek continued, “And so! Drum roll please! I'm looking for a Lead Writer to help me and the narrative team craft the next chapter in the Dawnwalker saga. We're looking for someone who, to put it bluntly, writes EXCEPTIONALLY well, has a track record of excellence and experience in team management.”

As mentioned, The Blood of Dawnwalker has been particularly praised for its writing and characters, and so it makes sense that Rebel Wolves would want to ensure that they have the right team at the helm for what will likely be a highly-anticipated sequel.

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CD Projekt Red are not one to shy away from collaborating with other studios, with The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 maker having allowed its IPs to crossover into plenty of games – both AAA and indie alike. In an unexpected announcement however, CDPR and Blizzard have now teased “a collaboration three decades in the making.“

Taking to their blog to make the surprise announcement, CDPR shared a lengthy post going into the history of the studio and its relationship with Blizzard.

Of course, the team weren’t merely sharing platitudes, with CDPR confirming that The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt Remastered will be added to Battle.net on the 29th of September.

While an interesting move from both companies, this appears to be just the tip of their collaboration, with the team confirming that “a Geralt-themed skin is coming to Diablo IV” at some point in the future.

It seems the really big announcements are being kept under wraps for now however, with CDPR stating: “we’re hard at work preparing more surprises for fans of CD PROJEKT RED and Blizzard, and it won’t be too long before we can reveal them.”

As mentioned, CD Projekt Red have worked with other publishers / IPs in the past. That said, with statements such as “A Collaboration Three Decades in the Making” it’s safe to assume that far more is going on behind the scenes right now.

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Half a decade on from their last release in the form of Cyberpunk 2077, CD Projekt Red appear to be getting ready to drop multiple titles back-to-back over the next few years. Alongside the arrival of Songs of the Past some time in 2027, CDPR have now confirmed that The Witcher 4 will follow it up in 2028.

Taking to their socials to release a short video, CDPR’s Joint-CEO Michał Nowakowski reiterated the fact that the team will have a big presence at the upcoming 2026 edition of Gamescom, stating:

“I wanted to invite you to watch Opening Night Live, and come visit us on the Gamescom show floor […] The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt – Songs of the Past. We have a lot of the expansion to show off, including a taste of its dark story, and the new content it will bring.”

As mentioned, it was already previously confirmed that Songs of the Past would be at Gamescom in one form or another. In an unexpected move however, CDPR also spoke briefly about The Witcher 4. While it will not be present at Gamescom, Nowakowski did give some small nuggets of information, describing the title as “our biggest, boldest, and most ambitious game to date” – confirming that it will launch in 2028.

Given that aspects of Songs of the Past are meant to tie directly into The Witcher 4, having the two release close together does make sense. Whether CD Projekt Red will be able to pull it off however (in a bug-free manner no less), we will have to wait and see.

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CD Projekt Red is making further changes to its multiplayer Witcher project, known internally as Project Sirius. According to a new report, the studio has shifted resources once again, resulting in a fresh round of layoffs for the team working on the game.

According to sources speaking with Kotaku, Project Sirius is losing around 18 developers, with nine reassigned to other CDPR projects and nine departing the company entirely. While CDPR has not commented on this report publicly yet, it is believed that Project Sirius will remain in development and won't be cancelled.

Project Sirius has been in development since 2022 and has faced some turbulence along the way, including a reboot in 2023, which included its own round of layoffs. Since 2023, the Project Sirius team has grown once again, with CDPR's late 2025 roadmap update indicating that around 50 developers were now working on the game. That number is now going to be smaller if Kotaku's report is accurate.

Project Sirius is CD Projekt Red's latest attempt at cracking the multiplayer games market. Previously, CDPR had tried its hand at a standalone version of GWENT, which is no longer in active development. There was also a planned multiplayer component for Cyberpunk 2077, but that had to be scrapped after the single-player game's disastrous launch in 2020.

There are still questions around how well a co‑op Witcher game might resonate compared to something set in the Cyberpunk universe, which naturally lends itself to multiplayer systems. We know very little about the game officially, but a Monster Hunter-style game would work well and would be very fitting for The Witcher universe. Other approaches may struggle to feel authentic.

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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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