CODE WITCHER
THE WITCHER 4 has been announced – is a post-Cyberpunk 2077 comeback on the cards?CIRI-OUS BUSINESS
The announcement came with a
teaser image, a snow-covered
Witcher medallion that is definitely
not from the School of the Wolf.
Initially people thought it was a
re-designed logo for the School of the
Cat, but CDPR’s global community
director Marcin Momot subsequently
said on social media it was a Lynx. In
an email to PCG he writes, “I can
confirm that the medallion is, in fact,
shaped after a lynx.”
This is where things get slightly
muddled. The Lynx School is a new
school established after the events of
The Witcher 3 by members of the
School of the Cat and Geralt’s palC
D Projekt has
announced that a new
Witcher game is in
development “kicking
off a new saga for the
franchise”. While the details are
scarce at this stage, the most
immediately noticeable part of the
announcement is that – after
basically building the studio on it –
CD Projekt is leaving behind its
latest iteration of REDengine, the
tech behind Cyberpunk 2077 , and
moving to Unreal Engine 5.
Ever since the Witcher 3 ’s final DLC,
players have been ravenous to find
out what’s next: but Cyberpunk 2077
put that on the back-burner for many
years, and that game’s story looms
large here. The simple version is that,
while this was always coming at
some point, CDPR’s reputation took a
battering over Cyberpunk’s release
while the Witcher TV series brought
the series to new heights of
popularity. CDPR has a golden goose.Due tothe new partnership with Epic,the question
of the Epic Games Store was raised: CDPR has said
the game will not be an Epic Store exclusive.