The next game for The Witcher series has been officially announced by CD Projekt.
No release window as well as story details have been provided as of press time. However, the game developer has included a teaser image along with the announcement.
It has also been revealed that the game is in development using the Unreal Engine 5.
Next The Witcher Game Announced by CD Projekt
A The Witcher game has been announced by CD Projekt via an announcement posted on its official website.
The announcement reads, "the next installment in The Witcher series of video games is currently in development with Unreal Engine 5, kicking off a new saga for the franchise and a new technology partnership with Epic Games."
A report by Eurogamer has noted that CD Projekt has confirmed that, despite the partnership with Epic Games, the upcoming The Witcher game will not be exclusively released in one storefront. This means that players should not expect the game to be exclusive on the Epic Games Store.
No further details regarding the game have been included in the announcement. This may mean that fans may have to wait for a while before a release date or story details are announced.
However, the announcement does include a teaser image, which can see below:
The teaser image includes a medallion along with a short text teasing the beginning a new saga for the video game series.
Unreal Engine 5
The most notable bit of information about the new The Witcher game is the fact that it is in development using the Unreal Engine 5. According to the announcement by CD Projekt, this is because of the partnership between the company with Epic Games.
"This new relationship with Epic covers not only licensing, but technical development of Unreal Engine 5, as well as potential future versions of Unreal Engine, where relevant," the announcement reads.
CTO of CD PROJEKT RED, Paweł Zawodny, was quoted in the announcement, saying that "This cooperation is so exciting, because it will elevate development predictability and efficiency, while simultaneaously granting us access to cutting-edge game development tools."
It should be noted that the game developer previously used its own REDengine technology when building games.
The Witcher Video Game Series
The Witcher is a video game series based on the novels and short stories by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. The series is both developed and published by CD Projekt.
The first game in the series, The Witcher, was released in 2007. The most recently game that is part of the main series to be released is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which came out in 2015. CD Projekt's official announcement highlights that this particular game won 250 Game of the Year awards.
A standalone spinoff game called Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales was released in 2018. The game is playable on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, iOS, and Android.
