The Witcher 4 (PS5) News Articles
Monday1st Dec 2025
News The Witcher Dev Still Wants to Release Ciri's Whole Trilogy Within Six Years
Are you Cirious?
The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red is reportedly sticking to its plan to release not one, not two, but three new games within a six year period. To be clear, the company's referring to the new trilogy, which starts with The Witcher 4. The Ciri-led adventure doesn't have a release date (or even a release window) yet, but the idea...
Thursday27th Nov 2025
News The Witcher 4 Skips Game Awards for 2025, No New Trailer
After picking up Most Anticipated Game nominee
CD Projekt RED won't be bringing a new trailer for The Witcher 4 or any fresh piece of footage to The Game Awards next month, after it first debuted the new RPG at the show last year. CEO Michał Nowakowski shared the news in a social media post, where he thanked everyone who voted for The Witcher 4 to...
Monday24th Nov 2025
News 'We Want to Innovate': The Witcher 4 Dev Finds Inspiration in Baldur's Gate 3
Talk the talk
When you think of landmark western RPGs of the modern era, it's likely that two games immediately come to mind: The Witcher 3, and Baldur's Gate 3. It's obviously the latter that's had more impact in recent times, setting a new benchmark for choice-driven adventures — to the point where it's now being named as an inspiration for The...
Monday10th Nov 2025
News Key Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Writer and Designer Joins The Witcher 4 Team
Things are getting Cirious
A prominent member of Kingdom Come: Deliverance developer Warhorse Studios has just joined CD Projekt Red to work on The Witcher 4. Karel Kolmann was part of the Czech outfit for just over eight years, and took on some important roles during that time. Primarily, he was a gameplay designer, but also acted as a writer and...
Sunday15th Jun 2025
News The Witcher 4 Being Built for PS5 First and Foremost, Will Target 60fps
Big ambitions
CD Projekt RED has, historically, focused on the PC versions of its games, and then dialled them down for console. But this hasn’t always been a successful strategy for the studio. For example, many fans criticised the Polish studio for downgrading The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt prior to release, while Cyberpunk 2077’s issues on the PS4...
Wednesday4th Jun 2025
News Don't Expect The Witcher 4 to Look Like That Unreal Tech Demo When It Launches on PS5
Press X to doubt
CD Projekt RED momentarily dropped jaws this week when it showed a demo of The Witcher 4, running at 60fps with ray tracing on a bog-standard PS5. Of course, among the hanging tongues was a hearty helping of scepticism: can Sony’s current console, released in 2020, really do that? After all, not even showpiece first-party titles...
Tuesday3rd Jun 2025
News The Witcher 4 Gameplay Revealed, Running on PS5 at 60fps with Ray Tracing
Unreal stuff
CD Projekt Red has given us our first real look at The Witcher 4, but the big surprise here is that the game's Unreal Engine 5 tech demo — just showcased during Unreal Fest — is running on a base PS5. The studio says that the current build runs at 60 frames-per-second with ray tracing on Sony's current-gen system, and it looks...
Monday2nd Jun 2025
News First Witcher 4 Footage Could Be Coming This Week
Unreal
Our first glimpse of The Witcher 4 could be incoming, as CD Projekt Red has confirmed that it'll be presenting at State of Unreal on the 3rd June. As the name suggests, State of Unreal is a tech-driven showcase for everything Unreal Engine. The Polish developer promises a look at "some of the innovative technology & features that will...
Friday16th May 2025
News The Witcher 4's Awesome Reveal Trailer Wins Prestigious Art and Design Award
Ciri-ous business
The reveal trailer for The Witcher 4, which debuted during The Game Awards last year, has gone on to win a pretty big award. The ADC Annual Awards celebrate craft and creativity across a wide spectrum of artistic endeavours. They cover fields like architecture, illustration, and photography, while also highlighting works in...
Wednesday16th Apr 2025
News The Witcher 4 Dev Warns Against Beta Test Scam
Geralt of here
In what will probably end up being the weirdest news story of the day, The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red has felt the need to post an official statement regarding some kind of ongoing scam. Apparently, the scam in question revolves around people being invited to beta test The Witcher 4 — the highly anticipated sequel that was...
Wednesday26th Mar 2025
Stick to what you know
It's said it before on multiple occasions, but it's always nice to hear CD Projekt reiterate its commitment to making single-player games. As part of the company's latest earnings briefing, co-CEO Michal Nowakowski gave everyone exactly what they wanted to hear, stating that although "the video game market continues to...
Friday20th Dec 2024
News CD Projekt Red Won't Say Which, If Any, Current Consoles Can Handle The Witcher 4
But wants to support all major platforms
One of The Game Awards 2024's biggest moments was a lengthy cinematic trailer for The Witcher 4, which is set to star a recast Ciri in the lead role. The trailer, which CD Projekt Red says is "using assets and models from the game itself" and running on an "unannounced Nvidia GeForce RTX" graphics card, is...
Tuesday17th Dec 2024
News CD Projekt Red Confirms Ciri Recast for The Witcher 4 on PS5
The Lion Cub of Cintra is still the same on the inside
Developer CD Projekt Red has confirmed that Ciara Berkeley will play Ciri, the protagonist of the just-revealed The Witcher 4. The role was previously portrayed by Jo Wyatt in The Witcher 3. Fan speculation started to swirl immediately after the reveal trailer aired on Friday, and CDPR has since...
Friday13th Dec 2024
News The Witcher 4 Announced Starring Ciri
Are you Cirious
The next The Witcher game from CD Projekt Red has been officially revealed. It's called The Witcher 4 (that was easy!) and it stars a more mature Ciri — the woman Geralt effectively raised as his daughter, and tracked down in The Witcher 3. All we've got right now is this pretty great CG trailer. No release window has been...
Tuesday26th Nov 2024
News The Witcher 4 Hits Huge Dev Milestone, Enters Full Production
Baptism of Fire
Polaris, the project name for the next The Witcher title, has just hit an all-important milestone in its development process. Director Sebastian Kalemba has taken to social media in order to reveal that the game — commonly referred to as The Witcher 4 — is now in "full-scale production". Typically, this means that the bones of...
Tuesday28th Nov 2023
News The Witcher 4 Is Now CD Projekt Red's Main Focus as Work Wraps Up on Cyberpunk 2077
Wind's howling
As part of its latest earnings report, CD Projekt Red has provided an update on the state of its current projects, as of the 31st October, 2023. Now that it's all but wrapped up major support for Cyberpunk 2077 — following the release of Phantom Liberty in September and the announcement of the Ultimate Edition — the company's...
Tuesday30th May 2023
News Work on the Next Main Witcher Game Is Ramping Up as Cyberpunk Expansion Nears Release
A witcher's work is never done
CD Projekt Red has published its latest business overview online, and as is usually the case with the Polish company's reports, the documentation details the games that are currently in development. Right now, most of CDPR's teams are still hard at work on finishing Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, which is still set...
Friday4th Nov 2022
News The New Witcher Trilogy From CD Projekt Red Has Found Its Director
So it begins
A new trilogy of Witcher games is now in pre-production at developer CD Projekt Red, with the first entry currently known as Project Polaris. Now we know who will be helming the endeavour, with lead animator Sebastion Kalemba (who served in that capacity during the development of both The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and Cyberpunk 2077) taking...
Tuesday4th Oct 2022
News CDPR Just Announced Two New Witcher Games
A Witcher's work is never done
Good lord, CD Projekt Red is going all-in today, isn't it? The Polish developer has revealed that two new games set in The Witcher universe are happening — and that's alongside the next mainline The Witcher title that was announced a little while ago. Unlike that project, these additional games will not be developed...
Friday27th May 2022
News CDPR Confirms Most Devs Now on Cyberpunk 2077 Expansion as New Witcher Enters Pre-Production
Busy busy
CD Projekt Red revealed its current development structure during the company's latest earnings call. It comes as no huge surprise, but it was confirmed that the majority of its workforce is now committed to Cyberpunk 2077's first expansion — details of which supposedly leaked earlier this week. Having just about everyone on the DLC...
Wednesday6th Apr 2022
News The Witcher Dev Wants to Make Something Extraordinary with Unreal Engine 5
New engine, new Witcher
As part of Epic Games' recent Unreal Engine 5 showcase, The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red spoke on the subject of working with the technically impressive game-building software. Just in case you don't already know, the Polish company is using Unreal Engine 5 to make the next Witcher title, which was...
Wednesday23rd Mar 2022
News The New Witcher Game's Lynx Medallion Has Already Sparked Mass Speculation
Cat's got the cream
Speculation has engulfed fans of The Witcher over the last 48 hours or so, following the announcement of a new game in CD Projekt Red's role-playing series. The developer has yet to reveal any details on the game itself — other than it's being made using Unreal Engine 5 — so all we've had to go on is the key art that dropped...
Monday21st Mar 2022
News New Witcher Game Announced, Developed on Unreal Engine 5
"A new saga"
The inevitable is happening: CD Projekt Red has announced that it's now developing a new instalment in its The Witcher series. The last mainline Witcher title, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, released in 2015 for PlayStation 4 — and it's being re-released on PS5 this summer. The Polish developer states that this new game will be the...
