Considering the sorry state in which the long-gestating Cyberpunk 2077 launched, that seems like a smart move on CD Projekt Red’s part.
There’s another key element of this arrangement, too: easing some of the technological burden of developing the next Witcher game. “We are deeply honored by the opportunity to partner with CD PROJEKT RED to push the limits of interactive storytelling and gameplay together, and this effort will benefit the developer community for years to come,” said Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games. Two of the engine’s most impressive proofs of concept - “ Lumen in the Land of Nanite,” a PlayStation 5 tech demo released six months prior to the console’s launch, and The Matrix Awakens, which Epic released free on PS5 and Xbox Series X in December - were designed to show off the ways in which the technology can make a new generation of open-world games possible. Open-world gaming appears to be a major focus for Unreal Engine 5. In addition, developers from the Polish studio will work with Epic to “help tailor the engine for open-world experiences.” Instead, CD Projekt Red’s partnership with Epic Games “covers not only licensing, but technical development of Unreal Engine 5, as well as potential future versions of Unreal Engine, where relevant,” according to the news release. That doesn’t mean that publisher CD Projekt will sell the next Witcher game exclusively via the Epic Games Store - the company is “not planning on making the game exclusive to one storefront,” it said in a Twitter reply from the Witcher franchise’s official account. The move comes as part of a “multi-year strategic partnership with Epic Games,” the maker of the Unreal Engine, CD Projekt Red said in a news release. In addition, CD Projekt Red said that instead of its in-house RedEngine, the studio is switching to Unreal Engine 5 for the follow-up to 2015’s The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The next entry in The Witcher, the role-playing game franchise adapted from the eponymous series of fantasy novels and short stories by Andrzej Sapkowski, is currently in development at CD Projekt Red, the studio announced Monday.ĬD Projekt Red did not provide any information on platforms or a release window, but did release a teaser image for the game that may eventually be known as The Witcher 4: a witcher medallion with glowing red eyes, partially covered by a field of snow, with the tagline “A New Saga Begins.”
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